List of massacres in Ukraine

This is a list of massacres that have occurred in the modern day areas of Ukraine.

Massacres until 1939

Name	Date	Location	Perpetrators	Deaths	Notes
Siege of Kyiv[1]	November 28–December 6, 1240	Kyiv	Mongol Empire	48,000[2]
Cossack riots (Tach Vetat)	1648–1649	Nationwide	Cossacks	20,000–100,000 Jews	See Jewish casualties of Tach Vetat for discussion of various estimates of the number of murdered
Batih massacre	June 3–4, 1652	Batih	Cossacks	3,500–8,000 Polish POWs	Also known as the "Sarmatian Katyń"
Sack of Baturyn	November 2, 1708	Baturyn	Russian Empire	~7,000 Ukrainians	After the capture of the city, its entire civil population was massacred by Russian forces
Massacre of Uman	June 1768	Uman	Ukrainian rebels	2,000–33,000 Jews and Poles
Kiev pogrom (1881)	May 7, 1881	Kyiv		Unknown
Odessa pogrom (1905)	October 18 and 22, 1905	Odesa	Ethnic Russian, Ukrainian, and Greek rioters	400–1,000 Jews
Kiev pogrom (1905)	October 31–November 2, 1905	Kyiv	Ethnic Russian, Ukrainian, etc. rioters	100 Jews
Pogroms of the Russian Civil War	1918–1923	Ukraine and Southern Russia	Ukrainian People's Republic[citation needed] White Army Green armies Ukrainian nationalists	100,000–150,000 Jews	Including Jews who were massacred in Southern Russia
Fastiv massacre	September 1919	Fastiv	White Army	1,000–1,500 Jews
Eichenfeld massacre	November 1919	Eichenfeld, Katerynoslav	Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine	136 Mennonites
Berdychiv massacre (1920)	7 June 1920	Berdychiv	1st Cavalry Army	Hundreds of wounded Polish and Ukrainian soldiers, Red Cross workers and nuns.	Victims were burned alive in a hospital.[3]
Vinnytsia massacre	1937–1938	Vinnytsia	Soviet Union	9,432 Ukrainians and Poles	Part of the Great Purge.

Massacres during World War II

Name	Date	Location	Perpetrators	Deaths	Notes
Katyn massacre	April–May 1940	Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv	Soviet Union	7,247 Poles	7,247 of the 22,000 victims of the massacre were murdered in the three Ukrainians cities.[4]
Lunca massacre	February 7, 1941	Lunca	Soviet Union	Over 600	Massacre of Romanians
Fântâna Albă massacre	April 1, 1941	Fântâna Albă	Soviet Union	44 (Soviet & Russian claim) 3,000 (Romanian claim)	Massacre of Romanians
NKVD prisoner massacres in Ukraine	June–November 1941	In 78 prisons across Ukraine	Soviet Union	Almost 9,000	By Stalin's orders
Lviv pogroms (1941)	June 1941 – July 1941	Lviv	OUN-B, Einsatzgruppen, Ukrainian nationalists, local crowds	6,000 Jews
Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre	August 27–28, 1941	Kamianets-Podilskyi	Nazi Germany Ukrainian Auxiliary Police	23,600 Jews
Pavoloch massacre	September 5, 1941	Pavoloch	Nazi Germany	1,500 Jews
Nikolaev massacre	September 16–30, 1941	Mykolaiv	Nazi Germany	35,782 mostly Jews
Babi Yar massacre	September 29–30, 1941	Babi Yar	Nazi Germany	33,771 Jews
Berdychiv massacre (1941)	October 5, 1941	Berdychiv	Nazi Germany	20,000–38,536 Jews
1941 Odessa massacre	October 22–24, 1941	Odesa	Nazi Germany  Kingdom of Romania local crowds	25,000–100,000 Jews
Drobitsky Yar	December 15, 1941	Kharkiv	Nazi Germany	15,000 Jews
Artemivsk massacre	January 11, 1942	Artemivsk (now Bakhmut)	Nazi Germany	1,317–3,000 Jews
Sarny massacre	August 27–28, 1942	Sarny	Nazi Germany	14,000–18,000 Jews
Massacre of Grischino	February 1943	Pokrovsk	Soviet Union	596 POWs and prisoners	Massacre of Germans, Italians, Romanians, Ukrainians, Hungarians, and Danes.
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia	March 1943 – December 1944	Volhynia	Ukrainian Insurgent Army	60,000–100,000 Poles
Koriukivka massacre	March 1–2, 1943	Koriukivka	Nazi Germany	6,700
Janowa Dolina massacre	April 23, 1943	Janowa Dolina	Ukrainian nationalists	600+ Poles
Hurby massacre	June 2, 1943	Hurby	Ukrainian Insurgent Army	250 Poles
Dominopol massacre	July 11, 1943	Dominopol	Ukrainian Insurgent Army	490 Poles
Gurów massacre	July 11, 1943	Gurów	Ukrainian Insurgent Army	410 Poles
Poryck massacre	July 11, 1943	Poryck	Ukrainian Insurgent Army	300 Poles
Zagaje massacre	July 11–12, 1943	Zagaje	Ukrainian Insurgent Army	260–350 Poles
Budy Ossowskie massacre	August 29, 1943	Budy Ossowskie	Ukrainian Insurgent Army	290 Poles
Głęboczyca massacre	August 29, 1943	Głęboczyca	Ukrainian Insurgent Army	250 Poles
Wola Ostrowiecka massacre	August 30, 1943	Wola Ostrowiecka	Ukrainian Insurgent Army	529 Poles
Huta Pieniacka massacre	February 28, 1944	Huta Pieniacka	Ukrainian nationalists	500–1,200 Poles
Chodaczków Wielki massacre	April 16, 1944	Chodaczków Wielki	14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)	862 Poles

Massacres in the post-WWII period

Name	Date	Location	Perpetrators	Deaths	Notes
Kerch Polytechnic College massacre	October 17, 2018	Kerch, Crimea	Vladislav Roslyakov	21	School shooting and nail-bomb attack
Bucha massacre	March 2022	Bucha, Kyiv Oblast	Russia	73-178+ (UN)/ 458 (Ukraine)	Killing of Ukrainian civilians during the Russian occupation
Olenivka prison massacre	29 July 2022	Molodizhne, Donetsk Oblast	Russia	53–62 POWs
Volnovakha massacre	27 October 2023	Volnovakha	Russia	9	including two children

Other events

These events involving multiple deaths in Ukraine are not widely known, or recognised, as 'massacres'.

Other events involving multiple deaths in Ukraine

Name	Date	Location	Perpetrators	Deaths	Notes
Dnepropetrovsk maniacs	June 25-July 16, 2007	Dnipro	Viktor Sayenko, Igor Suprunyuk	21	Two 19-year old boys killed 21 people.
Leskovitsa Killings	April 20–21, 2010	Chernihiv	Oleksandr Sergov	3	1 Wounded, A Neo-Nazi kills three people with a shovel in Chernihiv's Leskovitsa neighborhood
Trofimov Beheadings	December 15, 2012	Kharkiv	Unknown	4	Murder of judge Vladimir Trofimov and his relatives
Revolution of Dignity	February 18–21, 2014	Kyiv	Government of Viktor Yanukovych (Berkut)	108	Including 2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots
2014 Odesa clashes	May 2, 2014	Odesa	Euromaidanites (and Anti-Maidanites)	48
Murder of Pentecostals in Sloviansk	June 2014	Sloviansk	Russian Orthodox Army	4
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17	July 17, 2014	Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast	Donetsk People's Republic	298
Novosvitlivka refugee convoy attack	August 18, 2014	Novosvitlivka, Luhansk Oblast	Luhansk People's Republic	17
Volnovakha bus attack	January 13, 2015	Volnovakha	Donetsk People's Republic	12
Siege of Chernihiv	February 24–April 4, 2022	Chernihiv	Russia	700+
Chernihiv bombing	March 3, 2022	Chernihiv	Russia	47	Part of Siege of Chernihiv
March 2022 Donetsk attack	March 14, 2022	Donetsk	Russia  Donetsk People's Republic	23
Chernihiv breadline attack	March 16, 2022	Chernihiv	Russia	14	Part of Siege of Chernihiv
Mariupol theatre airstrike	March 16, 2022	Mariupol	Russia	12 (Amnesty International) 600 (AP)	Part of Siege of Mariupol
Mykolaiv government building airstrike	March 29, 2022	Mykolaiv	Russia	37	Part of Battle of Mykolaiv
Kramatorsk railway station attack	April 8, 2022	Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast	Russia	59
Bilohorivka school bombing	May 7, 2022	Bilohorivka, Luhansk Oblast	Russia	2 (confirmed) 60 (claim)
2022 Kremenchuk missile strike	June 27, 2022	Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast	Russia	21	Missile airstrike of Amstor mall
Izium mass graves	Discovered on 15 September 2022	Izium, Kharkiv Oblast	Russia Russian Ground Forces	440+

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