Rostov Drug-Addicted Maniac Stabbed a Young Woman to Death and Left a Teenager Seriously Injured

A knife rampage in Rostov-on-Don shocked an entire city. Twenty-six-year-old Vladislav Kuznetsov attacked people in apartment stairwells, leaving a teenage boy critically injured and killing 21-year-old student Ulyana Omelko with dozens of stab wounds. Neighbors who recognized him in viral videos helped police catch the suspect, a drug addict with a history of psychiatric treatment and debts. This episode explores the manhunt, the failures that let him roam free, and the questions now facing Russia’s justice system.