Three military personnel and three police officers wounded at TCK office in Kyiv’s Pechersk district – police
Three police officers and three military personnel were wounded following a shooting inside a Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support (TCK) in the capital’s Pechersk district; the shooter has been detained, Kyiv police press service has reported.
At around 7 p.m. on October 19, a shooting occurred at a recruitment center in Kyiv's Pechersk district, injuring three police officers and three military personnel, according to local authorities. The incident took place at a Territorial Recruitment Center (TCC) where a man suspected of draft evasion had been brought by police.
The man then opened fire on the police and service members, wounding them before being detained. All victims were taken to the hospital by ambulance for treatment. This shooting is the latest in a series of violent incidents amid Ukraine's deepening mobilization crisis, with forced mobilization a major source of social and political tension in the country.
Since Russia's full-scale invasion began in February 2022, dozens of attacks on enlistment officers have occurred across Ukraine, with the number of incidents rising in 2026.
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