Citizen of Ukraine Mykola Karpiuk, who was convicted in Russia, was sent to serve his sentence in a penal colony in Vladimir (Vladimir region) of the Russian Federation on December 5, lawyer Ilya Novikov said.

"I report that Karpiuk Mykola Andronovych, born in 1964, was sent on December 5, 2016 for further serving of the punishment into the decree FKU T2 of the town of Vladimir of Russia's Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Vladimir region," the letter of the leadership of the pretrial detention facility No. 1 of Russia's Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Chechen Republic says, which photocopy was posted by Novikov on his Facebook page on Tuesday.

The Chechen High Court sentenced Karpiuk and Klykh on May 26 to 22.5 and 20 years in custody, respectively. Karpiuk was due to serve the first ten years of his sentence in prison, and the prison term of Klykh was set at nine years. After that both convicts will be transferred to a maximum-security penitentiary.

The Russian Supreme Court upheld the sentence on October 26. Karpiuk and Klykh were sentenced for participating in the hostilities against federal forces with the UNA-UNSO organization during the first Chechen campaign.