Moscow man sentenced to 16 years in a maximum-security colony for a knife attack on Leningradsky Prospekt

Verdict in the March attack

In Moscow, a verdict was handed down to a 28-year-old man who attacked two acquaintances with a knife on Leningradsky Prospekt. The city prosecutor's office reported the court's decision. The crime took place in the evening of March 4, 2026: a quarrel broke out between three acquaintances over personal animosity and escalated into a knife fight. According to the prosecutor's office, the attacker inflicted at least two knife wounds on one of his opponents and at least nine on the other. The young man, born in 2003, died at the scene, while the second victim, born in 1996, survived thanks to timely medical assistance and was hospitalized.

Punishment and compensation

The court found the defendant guilty of the murder of one person and the attempted murder of another and sentenced him to 16 years of imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony. In addition, the court granted the civil claim of the victim's father and ordered the convicted man to pay him 3 million rubles. This was reported by Life.ru, which supplemented the prosecutor's office's statement with details about the number of stab wounds, dates, and the compensation.