Russia’s High Court has confirmed the case against two Ukrainian citizens, Nikolay Karpiuk and Stanislav Klikh, accused of killing 30 Russian servicemen during the first Chechen War (1994-1995).
Speaking in court, Karpiuk stated that: “All this lawlessness is aimed at only one thing - to take vengeance on me for being Ukrainian, and for being a patriot of my country.”
The lawyers of Karpiuk and Klikh told the court that their clients had been tortured during their trial processes.
Nikolay Karpiuk was given 22 and a half years in a penal colony. Stanislav Klikh was given 20 years.
