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According to Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova, Ukrainian citizen Stanyslav Klykh, convicted in Russia, is under treatment in a mental hospital in Magnitogorsk, Ukrainian ombudsman Valeria Lutkovska said.

“Following a request of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada’s Human Rights Commissioner Valeria Lutkovska, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said that as of September 4,  Stanyslav Klykh is in institutional treatment at a department of the mental hospital of the Federal State-Funded Healthcare Institution ‘Medical Ward No. 74 of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service’ in the city of Magnitogorsk,” the Ukrainian ombudsman said on Facebook on September 5.

According to Moskalkova, Klykh was hospitalized with his own written consent, she said.

“Given an improvement of Stanyslav Klykh’s overall condition, he is expected to be discharged from the hospital in the near future. You will be informed later on his transfer to continue serving further sentence,” Lutkovska cited Moskalkova as saying in her letter.

On May 26, 2016, the Chechen Supreme Court sentenced two Ukrainian citizens, Mykola Karpiuk and Stanyslav Klykh, to 22.5 and 20 years of imprisonment, respectively. According to the verdict, Karpiuk is to serve the first ten years of his sentence in jail, while Klykh will serve the first nine years in jail, after which they will be transferred to a high-security penal colony.

On October 26, 2016, the Russian Supreme Court upheld the sentences handed out to the Ukrainians convicted in the case involving the fighting in the first Chechen campaign on the side of the organization UNA-UNSO, which is banned in Russia.

In March 2017, Klykh was transferred from Chechnya to Verkhneuralsk.