The TCC says that in Uman, one of its employees was stabbed by a man who approached the draft officers himself

In Uman, in Ukraine’s Cherkasy region, a man stabbed an employee of the Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center (TCC) in the neck.

This was reported by the press service of the Cherkasy Regional TCC on its Facebook page.

According to the agency, yesterday the man approached a group of recruitment officers on his own and stabbed one of them. The TCC employee was hospitalized with the injury, and the attacker was detained.

“On January 28, in Uman district, TCC and Social Support servicemen were carrying out measures to notify persons liable for military service—correctly and in accordance with the law. But that didn’t concern one local resident. An aggressively minded man approached a group of Armed Forces servicemen and immediately struck one of them with a knife in the neck area. Fortunately, our soldier had a strong guardian angel… The knife did not hit the carotid artery. Comrades who were nearby immediately detained the attacker and handed him over to law enforcement. The actions of this criminal will undoubtedly receive an appropriate legal qualification. The wounded soldier was promptly taken to a medical facility, where he is receiving all necessary medical care and treatment,” the statement says.

The TCC said the serviceman had taken part in combat, had been wounded twice, and despite injuries and difficult consequences of the war, continued his service in the Cherkasy Regional TCC and Social Support Center.

“He could not even imagine that here, in the rear, in his native Cherkasy region, someone’s vile hand with a knife would be raised against him… The hand of someone he had also been defending since the first day of the full-scale invasion. This vile attack is yet another confirmation of how some citizens have succumbed to the influence of enemy propaganda, forgetting who is truly the root cause of this war aimed at destroying our people as a nation and our country as a state,” the statement emphasized.

It is worth noting that, judging by published reports, mobilized people are far more often subjected to violence by recruitment officers than the latter suffer at the hands of civilians. For example, just before the New Year, in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi TCC, a man allegedly died after being beaten by recruitment officers, according to local Telegram channels.