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Kyiv: 14-Year-Old Stabs Student and Teacher - Possible Russian Link

Published January 12, 2026, 13:15
Kyiv: 14-Year-Old Stabs Student and Teacher - Possible Russian Link

A 14-year-old is accused of stabbing a classmate and a 39-year-old teacher at a school in Kyiv, in an attack that may be linked to Russia, police and the Kyiv prosecutor's office announced today. The teenager “put on a mask and helmet he had prepared in advance in the school toilets, then ran into a classroom and attacked a 39-year-old teacher and a 14-year-old classmate with a knife,” before self-harming to the hand and abdomen, Ukrainian police said in a statement. The Kyiv prosecutor's office referred to a possible connection to Russia after finding “correspondence” on the teenager's phone with “unknown individuals – possibly representatives of Russian intelligence services.” The teacher is in “serious condition” and all three have been hospitalized.