He Beat His Ex-Wife and Injured His Daughter: A Serviceman in Mykolaiv Region Was Fined UAH 850

The Arbuzynskyi District Court found a man guilty of inflicting minor bodily injuries on his ex-wife and young daughter in Mykolaiv Oblast. He was fined 850 hryvnias. The details of the case are set out in the court registry records at reyestr.court.gov.ua.

The incident took place at around 2 a.m. on July 18, 2026, at the victims’ home. The man came to visit his ex-wife, whom he had divorced in 2022. According to the woman’s testimony, he was intoxicated.

During the argument, the man punched his ex-wife in the head three times and struck her once in the right shoulder. Their daughter stepped between her parents, trying to protect her mother. The man abruptly lifted the sofa’s pull-out compartment, directing it toward the child.

In her testimony, the girl said she woke up to her parents shouting and saw her father hitting her mother. Later, she found a dead cat beside the sofa and told her father. According to the daughter, the man became angry and began searching inside the sofa compartment, then abruptly threw that part of the furniture toward her.

Forensic medical experts found a bruise on the woman’s right shoulder and a scratch on the child’s abdomen. The injuries were classified as minor bodily injuries.

The defendant pleaded guilty in court. He confirmed that he had hit his ex-wife and then struck his daughter with the sofa’s movable section. The court classified his actions under Part 1 of Article 125 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — intentional infliction of minor bodily injury.

The court considered the man’s sincere remorse a mitigating circumstance. The aggravating circumstances included the fact that the victims were his ex-wife and young child.

In determining the sentence, the court also took into account that the man:

• had no prior convictions;
• has two young children;
• is considered satisfactory at his place of residence;
• is serving in the military.

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