Halya Coynash: Forget Minsk – Ukrainians get 22 & 20 years for invented crimes in Chechnya
One day after releasing Nadiya Savchenko, Russia has sentenced two other Ukrainians to virtually identical terms of imprisonment on even more insane charges. The indictment flew in the face of historical fact, and both Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh can prove that they were in Ukraine at the time of the alleged crimes in Chechnya. The two men also bear the scars of the torture inflicted to extract 'confessions' incriminating not only themselves, but the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk and other prominent Ukrainian politicians.