The Supreme Court of Chechnya has sentenced Ukrainian citizens Mykola Karpiuk and Stanislav Klykh to 22 and a half and 20 years in a high-security penal colony, respectively, defense lawyer of the Ukrainians Ilya Novikov has said.

"The verdict for Karpiuk is 22 years and a half. That for Klykh is 20 years. But as we found out yesterday, sometimes these words on paper mean less than nothing," Novikov wrote on Twitter on Thursday.