Knife and busification: the TCC reported details of a stabbing during mobilization activities
A wanted man lunged at a soldier and a police officer with a knife
In Mykolaiv, new details have emerged about the attack on a serviceman of the TCC and SP and a police officer that occurred on 17 March 2026 during the alert group’s operation. On 20 March 2026 reported “Suspilne”, citing the representative of the Mykolaiv Regional TCC and SP, Nataliya Advent.
According to her, the servicemen noticed a man running with a knife in his hands. They tried to stop him and found that a little earlier another mobilization group had already attempted to check the same man, but he began to run and ran into the second alert group.
“Our guys just wanted to disarm him and then find out what the situation was. And it turned out that a little earlier a mobilization alert group had also stopped him to check his military registration documents — he started to run. He started to run and ran into the second alert group,” — said Nataliya Advent.
After that the man was detained and the knife was taken away, however already in the service vehicle he produced another knife and inflicted wounds on a serviceman and a police officer. According to the police, the attacker was detained in accordance with Art. 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, and the weapon was seized.
The director of LSHMD, Oleksandr Dem’yanov, reported that the police officer is in stable condition in the hospital; he has a penetrating wound. At the same time, the wounded serviceman of the TCC and SP received outpatient care. The territorial center also noted that he is a combatant who previously fought on the Donetsk and Kherson fronts, and after being wounded and having health problems was transferred to the TCC.
Separately, the TCC and SP reported that the attacker is a 33-year-old person liable for military service who last appeared at the recruitment center in 2019. In 2024 he was sent two summonses, and from 5 May 2025 he was wanted for failing to update his military registration data and for failing to appear when summoned. The police qualified the man’s actions under Art. 348 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — an encroachment on the life of an employee of a law enforcement agency or a serviceman. The article’s sanction provides from 9 to 15 years of imprisonment or life imprisonment.
Previously we wrote:
- Bloody “defense” against mobilization: a knife to the abdomen of a police officer and a serviceman
- 20 people attacked TCC employees near Poltava: eight detained
- Skirmish in Zakarpattia: a group of people with sticks attacked TCC servicemen
- In Prykarpattia a man with a knife wounded two TCC servicemen
- In Mykolaiv, a man who for years ignored the military medical commission was detained
