Ukrainian diplomat suffers in attack on human rights activist in Grozny
Ukrainian Consul was attacked during an assault against head of the Russian Committee to Combat Torture in the capital of Chechnya on Wednesday.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin reported the incident on his Twitter account. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry gave no further details.
The attackers were not identified.
The Supreme Court of Chechnya is considering an appeal against extension of arrest for Ukrainian citizens Mykola Karpiuk and Stanislav Klykh, accused of participation in the military hostilities and killing of Russian servicemen in Chechnya in 1990's.
Ukraine's Consul Anatoliy Kovtun attends the court hearings.
Klimkin also wrote that the courtroom at a hearing on Thursday was full of people who did not know what hearing they were attending. The minister also said that Ukrainian Consul had to twice call paramedics for Klykh's mother, who also attended the proceedings and suffered heart attacks.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister said he would pass all this information to Ukraine's European partners.
Earlier Russian media reported that head of the Russian Committee to Combat Torture Igor Kaliapin was attacked in front of the hotel he stayed in Grozny. Individuals in masks beat him, and threw eggs and flour at him.
