Russian jury found Ukrainians guilty of killing dozens of people during the war in Chechnya

12, the jury returned a verdict in the case of “Ukrainian nationalists” Stanislav Klyha and Nikolaya Karpyuka. They found them guilty in the death and injury of dozens of Russian soldiers in Chechnya in 1994-1995.

This is one of the most insane and monstrous falsification cases against Ukrainian citizens, after the annexation of the Crimea. Nikolai Karpyuk, former head of the UNA-UNSO, and history teacher Stanislav Klyh that, as a student, was in the UNA-UNSO, became a defendant in a long-standing dusty criminal case of Russian soldiers killing Chechen fighters, which was instituted in 2000, but was repeatedly suspended and re-instituted. Ukrainians in this case is “bound” in 2014. This is a matter of the breed of so-called artificial. It was a clear and unambiguous order for the arrest of Ukrainian nationalists who had to talk about the crimes Yatsenyuk, Yarosh and other high-ranking Ukrainian politicians, and that was done.

Someone Alexander Malofeev, HIV-infected jailbird with the experience of being in prison, testified that 20 years ago fought in Chechnya Yarosh and Yatsenyuk, called Klyha and Karpyuk (which at that time just was detained in Russia: Karpyuk – on the road to Moscow, where he allegedly went to negotiate with the Russian government, – so he Karpyuk said in his address to the ECHR), Klyha – in Orel, where he had gone to his girlfriend.

Single story – almost a year later managed to find Stanislaus in the detention center of Pyatigorsk and as a lawyer Marina Dubrovin miraculously managed to get through to him on a date. He told her the details of the terrible torture, which brought him to mind. Having familiarized with the materials of the case, Dubrovin’s lawyer learned that Karpyuk located in Chelyabinsk prison. There he hid from everyone from human rights activists, relatives, Ukrainian consuls, and the lawyer was able to see him only in Grozny jail, where Karpyuk already brought to the court.

Now I understand why the prosecution did not want to, so that these accused were real advocates: in the course of the trial, they masterfully destroyed artificially created a mad charge.

The trial lasted more than six months; the jury were the parents of dead Russian soldiers, who were accused of murder and Klyha Karpyuk. And it so happened that these witnesses, without even realizing, destroyed the accusation.

Speaking with the last word, Nikolai Karpyuk had told the jury how he was tortured. About the torture and said Stanislav Klyh; He showed the jury the wounds on his feet (his feet were burning electricity), which have been preserved, and one year later.

Killed, but did not there

At the trial we talked a lot about military operations in Grozny during the first war in Chechnya, and, of course, all the jurors are well aware of what was happening.

Lawyers in detail and clearly, relying on the testimony of relatives of the victims who spoke in court, and the materials of forensic examinations, explained to the jury that the 30 military personnel could not be killed by their clients.

According to the prosecution, Nicholas Karpyuk and Stanislav Klyh were armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, caliber 5.45 mm. After analyzing the deaths of 20 soldiers, Dubrovin lawyer found that only two of them died from gunshot bullet wounds. But the prosecution did not present evidence that they have got the bullet caliber 5.45 mm. In addition, relatives of the dead do not specify the place of their death, and any other documents that would confirm that these soldiers were killed just near the railway station or on Minutka Square, where, according to the prosecution, were accused 20 years ago, in the case file no .

Another eight soldiers were killed in a mine blast injuries and thermal burns, that they could not cause the accused, armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles with a caliber 5.45 mm.

Also, the prosecution had not presented evidence that the deaths of ten more soldiers guilty Klyh and Karpyuk. Relatives of the victims told in court that they were not aware of the details of their deaths, and, in general, is known only to the date – January 1, 1995.

Lawyer Karpyuk Dokka Itslaev, after his colleague Marina Dubrovina, analyzed the circumstances of the death of ten soldiers killed and injured another 13. It was found that none of those killed and wounded could not be the victim of his client: they were not killed by firearms and were not injured bullets of caliber 5.45 mm.

In addition, according to relatives of the victims and the victims themselves, wounded in Grozny in January 1995, these people were not involved in the fighting in Minutka square to 19 pm December 31, 1994 or at the railway station in Grozny, after 19 hours of December 31, 1994.

They could not take part in these battles, because of the fighting in Minutka Square in Grozny on 31 December 1994 to 2 January 1995 were not. And it has been proven in court. Was read a letter of the Operations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Rakitin from 25 April 2014 to the head of GSU SK Russia’s North Caucasus Federal District, which states that information on the clashes on 31 December 1994 to 9 January 1995 in the area of ​​Minute no. There is no information that the January 5, 1995 (featured in the indictment as a place where supposedly fought Karpyuk and Klyh these addresses) at the railway station and from February to March 1995, in the area of ​​the 9 th city hospital of Grozny was fighting .

What the jury? How can they answer questions from the questionnaire: “Do Karpyuk guilty and Klyh troops in the killings?”, If there is conclusive evidence that they are innocent.

Protection convincingly proved in the debate, that the crime was not per se: the defendants did not kill anyone, never been to Chechnya. Since the charge and Karpyuk Klyha built on the testimony of Malofeeva, who spoke on the investigation and in court that he had seen them in Chechnya, the defense tried to explain to the jury that the words can not be trusted Malofeev. Lawyer Itslaev during the debate elaborated on extensive testimony Malofeeva. He showed them to complete failure: for example, Malofeev said he participated in the fighting in Chechnya and, in particular, in a battle near the village of Urus-Kert, during which killed 80 paratroopers in October-November 1999 and March 2000 federal forces. But, according to the verdict of the Kerch City Court on August 17, 2000, in February and March 2000 Malofeev steals in the Crimea, for which he was sentenced. Again, a lie: Malofeev told the court that he was in the squad Salman Raduyev in the Vedeno district of Chechnya in May 2000.

Questioned in court chairman of the “Memorial” Human Rights Center, Alexander Cherkasov said that in May 2000 he Salman Raduev was sitting in detention. Consequently, Malofeev could not fight in his squad.

Conspiracy theories

Attorney Blinnikov first speaker in the debate and tried to prevent the exposure of the protection of inconsistencies in the indictment and statements Malofeeva. He assured the jury that Malofeev never sat in the Crimea, and his case was fabricated SBU to find an alibi for him and hide the fact that he fought in Chechnya, along with other Ukrainians.

“He is not serving a sentence, it was a legend. So do all the intelligence agencies in the world. You know what the SBU? This is a special service, which has information on all over the country “, – said the prosecutor, without hesitation, that, pushing the conspiracy theories falsification Malofeeva case, he gave the jury a bad idea: it just Ukrainian special services fabricated the case, then why the Russian FSB did not falsify the matter Karpyuk and Klyha?

Moreover, that thanks to a careful work of lawyers from the case thread sewn in the sake of political expediency, stick it is very natural.

Although the verdict is guilty, after some time the accused will still come back to Ukraine.

However, none of those who tortured Karpyuk and threatened that also tortured his young son if he did not give the necessary evidence, and none of those who tortured Klyha and brought him to mind who wrote and fabricated case, accusing innocent people in murder is not punished. And these things will play other investigators. To produce them will take the other judges.

And there is no end.

Author: Zoya Svetova, journalist, member of the PMC in Moscow, winner of the Moscow Helsinki Group in the field of protection of human rights

Sourse, 19/05/2016