Knives, clashes, murders: Ukraine has already seen 611 attacks on military recruitment centers

The National Police told the agency “Interfax-Ukraine” that as of April 5, 2026 the country has documented 611 cases of resistance or attacks on employees of TCC and SP while they were performing their official duties. During the same period three TCC servicemen were killed.

Yearly dynamics:

• 2022 year — 5 attacks
• 2023 year — 38
• 2024 year — 118
• 2025 year — 341
• since the beginning of 2026 — over 100 attacks

Regions with the largest number of attacks:

• Kharkiv Oblast — 68
• Kyiv — 53
• Dnipropetrovsk Oblast — 44
• Volyn Oblast — 38
• Lviv Oblast — 37
• Odesa Oblast — 36
• Chernihiv Oblast — 33

This is effectively a sustained and dangerous increase in aggression against servicemen during mobilization activities.

Against this background the events of just the past few days look particularly alarming. On April 2 in Lviv, during notification measures a 52-year-old TCC serviceman was fatally stabbed, on April 4 in Vinnytsia a man with a knife attacked two servicemen, and on April 6 in Kharkiv another assailant wounded a serviceman during a notification. All three episodes occurred in less than a week.

These statistics show not isolated conflicts but a nationwide trend that directly undermines the safety of people in uniform. And while the state talks about mobilization as a duty, in practice it increasingly ends with knives, scuffles and deaths. This means the problem long ago went beyond isolated incidents and has become a matter of public safety.

Previously, we wrote:

• Stabbing during notification: attack on a TCC serviceman
• After Lviv – a new attack: two TCC servicemen wounded in Vinnytsia
• Attempt “to take” a brother away from the TCC resulted in murder: what is known about the tragedy in Lviv
• Knife to the neck and escape: in Lviv a TCC employee was killed, the attacker turned out to be a customs officer
• Shooting, blockade and a bloody clash during mobilization in Odesa