Halya Coynash: Russia’s “most monstrously falsified trial” of Ukrainians ends as commissioned
Sentence is now due after a jury in Grozny, Chechnya on May 19 found two Ukrainians Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh guilty of fighting against Russian forces in Chechnya in 1994/95 and killing 31 soldiers. Russian human rights defenders had already declared both men political prisoners and Zoya Svetova, a prominent rights activist, has called the case "one of the most insane and monstrously falsified prosecutions initiated against Ukrainian nationals since the annexation of Crimea".