ICRF delivers cases of two UNA-UNSO members to court of Chechnya

In Chechnya, Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, citizens of Ukraine and members of the UNA-UNSO, will face trial. They are of fighting in the territory of the republic, said the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). Karpyuk and Klykh were detained illegally, the Ukrainian party asserts.

According to investigators, in early 1990s, the UNA-UNSO (Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People's Self-Defence), a right-wing radical paramilitary organization, was created in Ukraine; and Karpyuk, Klykh, Malofeev, Muzychko and other persons became its members (the Supreme Court of Russia declared the UNA-UNSO an extremist organization; its activities are prohibited in the territory of Russia, – note of the "Caucasian Knot").

According to the ICRF, in 1994-2000, in Chechnya, Alexander Muzychko (also known under the pseudonym Sashko Bilyi) tortured and killed servicemen of Russian federal forces, captured during the warfare in Chechnya.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Muzychko was lost at night on March 25, 2014; and Vladimir Evdokimov, the First Deputy Minister of Interior, said that the activist of the "Right-Wing Sector" was fatally wounded at detention during a special operation conducted by employees of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Karpyuk and Klykh participated in combat operations in Chechnya in the 1990s "for the armed groupings of Shamil Basaev and Aslan Maskhadov," the ICRF has stated.

"From December 1994 to January 1995, Karpyuk, Klykh and Malofeev were repeatedly involved in clashes with the Russian armed forces, during which they assassinated at least 30 soldiers," says the website of the ICRF.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.