28 Hostages of the Kremlyn

28 HOSTAGES OF THE KREMLIN
3. ‘THE CHECHEN CASE’ — STANISLAV KLYKH AND MYKOLA KARPYUK
Citizens of Ukraine Stanislav Klykh and Mykola Karpyuk are involved as
defendants in the so-called Chechen case’ — a fabricated criminal case
against senior officials of Ukraine (including the current Prime Minister
of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk) for crimes committed on the territory of
the Russian Federation during the First Chechen War of the mid‐1990s.
Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh are simultaneously defendants and
witnesses in the criminal case. They gave their testimonies under torture.
Karpyuk and Klykh were arrested under different circumstances for alleged
administrative offences. Later, they were accused of forming a gang and
participating in it, as well as the assassinations of Russian soldiers during the
First Chechen War.
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Stanislav Klykh was detained on 11 August, 2014 on the territory of Russia in the city of
Orel (Orel Province) during a private visit to a girl whom he had met earlier in Crimea.
Stanislav’s parents learned about the incident through a phone call from an unknown
man, who told them that their son had been arrested for 15 days for ‘disobeying a police
order’. 11 Stanislav’s parents immediately went to the city of Orel in order to meet their son
in person, but they did not find him there, as Stanislav had been transferred to Yessentuki
(North Caucasian Federal District, Russia). On 24 August, 2014, at 2 a. m., Tamara Ivanovna,
the 71-year-old mother of Stanislav, received a phone call from her son. He confirmed that
he was in Yessentuki and reported that he was being accused of crimes committed in the
mid‐90s. The next day, she received a text message stating that he was about to be transported
to Pyatigorsk (Stavropol Krai, Russia). That was the last time she had any contact with
her son and for many months after, she received no information about him.
Mykola Karpyuk was detained under even more mysterious circumstances. For a long time,
there was no information about his whereabouts, which prompted fear for his life and safety.
It was only 14 months later that the first information about his whereabouts came to light.
At the beginning of March 2014, the leadership of the ‘Right Sector’ sent Mykola Karpyuk
to a meeting with ‘the leadership of the Russian Federation’, organised by another party
member Vyacheslav Fursa. On 17 March, 2014, Mykola, along with Vyacheslav, went to a
meeting in Moscow. On the Russian border, they were arrested and charged with an administrative
offence, and, subsequently, sent to the Bryansk department of the FSB. On 20 March,
2014, the FSB accused Mykola of involvement in the Chechen events and transferred him to
the unit of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Yessentuki. 12 Vyacheslav
Fursa was released. The aforementioned chronology of events raises suspicions that in this
case, there was a pre-planned operation aimed at luring the leaders of the ‘Right Sector’ to
the territory of the Russian Federation under false pretenses.
11 ‘Otkrytaya Rossiya’ [‘Open Russia’] / How Russia makes ‘Basayev’s fighters’ of Ukrainian teachers: the
grotesque story of a prisoner — https://openrussia.org/post/view/7954/
12 ‘Ekho Moskvy’ [‘The Echo of Moscow’] / Blogs. Mykola Karpyuk, accused in the case of ‘Ukrainian
militants’: ‘False testimonies against many people are on my conscience’ — www.echo.msk.ru/blog/
zoya_svetova/1639472-echo/