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On the Zaporizhzhia direction, Ukrainian public and political figure, co-founder of UNA-UNSO and former political prisoner of the Russian Federation Mykola Karpyuk was killed. He was 62 years old.
The death of Karpyuk was reported by former member of parliament Boryslav Bereza. The information was also confirmed by Yuriy Goncharenko, head of the InfoLight.UA research and analytics group, and Artur Palatny, first deputy head of the UDAR party of Vitali Klitschko.
“On the front, on the Zaporizhzhia direction, Mykola Karpyuk died. A person whom Russia held in its prisons and whom we managed to return to Ukraine… He was really a strong figure. And today I was told that he has died. And this is yet another great loss for Ukraine,” Bereza wrote.
Goncharenko noted that Karpyuk devoted his whole life to Ukraine, and after Russian captivity he again stood up for the defense of the state.
“Mykola Karpyuk has died… A person who dedicated her whole life to Ukraine, who never chased fame, money, or positions. A person who endured torture in a Russian prison,” he wrote.
According to Palatny, Karpyuk “went through revolutions, years of Russian captivity and hard trials,” and after 60 years again went to fight.
Mykola Karpyuk was born in 1964 year. In 1989 he joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, later headed the Rivne regional organization of the Ukrainian National Assembly and became the commander of the first detachment of the Ukrainian National Self-Defense.
In 1992–1993 years Karpyuk participated in the war in Moldova, and in 1993 year in combat actions in Georgia. In 2000–2001 years he was a participant in the “Ukraine without Kuchma” campaign and was sentenced to five years in prison. In 2015 year the European Court of Human Rights ruled on paying him compensation to Ukraine.
Karpyuk also took part in the Orange Revolution and the Revolution of Dignity. In 2005 year he was awarded the Order of Courage III degree.
In 2014 year Karpyuk went to Russia for negotiations to cancel the unlawful referendum on the annexation of Crimea. There he was detained and imprisoned. Together with Stanislav Klikh, he became a figure in a fabricated, according to human rights defenders, case about allegedly taking part in hostilities during the first Chechen war as part of UNA-UNSO. During imprisonment Karpyuk was subjected to torture.
In 2019 year Karpyuk was released from the Russian prison along with 34 other Ukrainians as part of a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and the Russian Federation.
After the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Karpyuk again defended Ukraine. He died during fighting on the Zaporizhzhia direction.
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