“The investigative department in the Kirovsky district of the city of Yekaterinburg of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Sverdlovsk Region has opened a criminal case against a 15-year-old local resident,” the statement reads on the website of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the region.

It is noted that the teenager is accused of attempted murder.

According to preliminary data, the suspect attacked the teacher on Sevastopolskaya Street, personal hostility became the motive for the attack.

It is clarified that the woman was able to resist, her life and health are not in danger.

Earlier, investigators of the Sverdlovsk region filed a petition for the transfer of materials from the police check to their production about the attack in Yekaterinburg of a ninth grader on a teacher near her house.

On December 25, URA.RU reported that in Yekaterinburg, a ninth-grade student at school No. 24 attacked a teacher of Russian language and literature at her home with a hammer, presumably because of dissatisfaction with the grades received in the first six months.