The mother of Ukrainian citizen Stanislav Klykh, who is held in Russia, has visited her son in a Russian prison, according to Iryna Gerashchenko, the first deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada and Ukraine's representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group.

"Tamara Ivanivna Klykh has just returned from a meeting with her son, Stanislav Klykh, who is illegally held in a Russian prison. She's crying that his son is feeling sick, mentally and physically exhausted, very thin," she wrote on her Facebook page on Tuesday, October 17.

According to Gerashchenko, Klykh's mother thanks everyone who helped her organize a trip to her son in jail and asks for every effort to be made to release him as soon as possible.

At the same time, Gerashchenko called it horrible that no one had been released for a year and stressed that the Ukrainian president raised the question of releasing hostages at all international meetings, with Ukraine's representatives in Minsk offering different options and compromises to unblock the process.

"There is no answer yet," she added.

On May 26, 2016, the Chechen Supreme Court sentenced two Ukrainian citizens, Mykola Karpiuk and Stanislav 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 down to the Ukrainians convicted in the case, which involved fighting in the first Chechen campaign on the side of the UNA-UNSO organization, which is banned in Russia.

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

In September, he was under treatment in a mental hospital in Magnitogorsk, Russia.