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The court in Grozny sentenced Ukrainians accused of the murder of Russian military

In the Supreme Court of Chechnya, a lawsuit ended, which lasted almost nine months: Ukrainians Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh were accused of participating in the Chechen war against the federal forces in the winter of 1994-1995 and the murder of the Russian military. According to the prosecution, Karpyuk and Klykh came to Chechnya through Tbilisi, compiled with other members of the nationalist organization of UNA-UNSO, now banned in Russia, the Viking detachment, in which they fought in Grozny. The detachment in the case file is called a gang with the corresponding article of the prosecution. Also, the verdict notes episodes with the training of Karpyuk and Klykh in the battle camps of Salman Raduev in 2000 and it is said that Karpyuk supplied the detachment with weapons, however, all this was not charged with the defendants. The version of the prosecution is built on the testimony of the only witness-the convicted in the Crimea and then in Russia Alexander Malofeev, who claims to be in Chechnya with Ukrainians, including the ex-prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. There is not a single documentary evidence of the prosecution in the case.

The jury, considering this case, issued the indictment a verdict a week ago. The state prosecution demanded a punishment for them for more than 20 years, the difference between Karpyuk, whom the prosecutor called the organizer of the gang, and Klych, whom the jury considered worthy of condescension, turned out to be only six months. As a result, Judge Vakhit Ismailov sentenced Karpyuk to 22.5 years in a maximum security colony, and Klykh to 20. When he read the text of the sentence with a monotonous voice, Klykhi sang Ukrainian songs loudly, then prayers and, finally, sang the Varangian. He was removed from the courtroom already at the end of the meeting after the sentence, the bailiffs were taken to the basement in the basement, and he did not appear more in the courtroom.

“This trial is a striking example of how no process should take place. If we reach the ECHR, the verdict will undoubtedly be canceled, ”Karpyuk Dokka Itslaev said after the meeting.

Karpyuk listened to the sentence carefully, clutching his hands into the cage rods. “I can say one thing: neither in 1994, nor in 1995, nor in the following, until March 17, 2014, I was not at all in the Russian Federation,” he managed to tell reporters. Karpyuk has already sent an application for torture to the European Court of Human Rights, with the help of which he was knocked out by “confessions”. According to him, he was tortured for several days. And Karpyuk signed everything. Already in court, he refused the initial testimony. When he talked about torture, the jury was removed from the hall, the judge asked them to "not take into account this information that was not related to the charge." “Everything that was created in this criminal case is being built on the fact that I was forced to lick me,” said Karpyuk during the last word. - Why facts, evidence when there is an electric current. It didn’t turn out electric shock, they told me: “Tomorrow your young son will be here, and they will do what they did to you.”

Stanislav Klykh also talked about torture. According to him, he was tortured for several months. “Put a bag on my head. In Essentuki led me into a cage with a bag on my head, ”he told the judge during the last word. Then he climbed up the cages upwards, rolled up his trousers and showed traces of burns from electricity: “For new journalists, I say - I got here on September 14, 2015. Before that, I have not been to the territory of the Chechen Republic. ” When the judge began to list the dead Russian soldiers who participated in the assault on Grozny on December 31, 1994, the Ukrainian shouted: “Have you seen me there? Kadyrov here, in a cage then! "

The state prosecution has traditionally commented on the verdict. “This is not a story about how Ukrainians fought in Chechnya, but a story about how any person can be fastened to an old pile of corpses,” explained lawyer Ilya Novikov. - And it was a real bunch of corpses, which remained after the assault of Grozny and lay in the refrigerator on the spare tracks in Rostov, they could not be identified. The same heap turned out in the verdict, where all these really dead people, who were simply impossible to kill, were blindly. The jury perfectly understood this, the judge understood this perfectly. But not investigators who initiated this case as a startup for a career. ”

The case appeared immediately after the death of the Russian military, but then an amnesty went through the participants of the Chechen war, and the materials were in demand only in 2014, when, against the backdrop of events in the Crimea and Donbass, Russian security officials and especially the Office for the investigation of crimes associated with the use of prohibited funds and methods for the war of the Russian Federation of the Russian Federation Drymanov, began to accuse any possibilities to accuse the leadership of Ukraine. In every political case of Ukrainians in Russia, in addition to the accused, representatives of the country's leadership appear all the time. In the case of Karpyuk and Klykh, recognized by the Memorial by the Memorial by political prisoners, this is the ex-Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk and the leadership of the nationalist movement of Ukraine.

Ilya Novikov believes that in 2014 they tried to prepare this case for Dmitry Yarosh, who was then prohibited in Russia with the “right sector”, but instead of Yarosh, his assistant Nikolai Karpyuk came to Russia, whose name appeared in the case file only after the detention. Before that, he did not appear even in the official release of the UK about the case of UNA-UNSO members in Chechnya.

After the sentence announced the Ukrainians in Grozny, the Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin said that the Savchenko’s sanctions “Savchenko list” would be replenished with the names of judges and investigators from the case of Karpyuk and Klykh. President Petro Poroshenko ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the SBU to take measures to return now convicted Ukrainians to their homeland. Despite the fact that they were convicted of the events of 20 years ago, the defense and now official Kyiv is well aware: if there weren’t Crimea and the war in the Donbass, there would be no political affair in Grozny.