List of massacres in Ukraine
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This is a list of massacres in Ukraine.
Name | Date | Location | Perpetrators | Deaths | Notes |
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Siege of Kiev | November 28–December 6, 1240 | Kyiv | ![]() |
48,000 | |
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 | ![]() |
~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 | Odessa | 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 | |
Mass killings of Jews during the Russian Civil War | 1918–1923 | Ukraine and Southern Russia | ![]() ![]() ![]() Ukrainian nationalists |
100,000–150,000 Jews | Including Jews who were massacred in Southern Russia. |
Vinnytsia massacre | 1937–1938 | Vinnytsia | ![]() |
9,432 Ukrainians | Part of the Great Purge. |
Fântâna Albă massacre | April 1, 1941 | Fântâna Albă | ![]() |
200–2,000 | |
NKVD prisoner massacres in Ukraine | June–November 1941 | In 78 prisons across Ukraine | ![]() |
Almost 9,000 | By Stalin's orders. |
Lviv pogroms (1941) | June 1941 – July 1941 | Lviv | Germans, Ukrainian nationalists, local crowds | 6,000 Jews | |
Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre | August 27–28, 1941 | Kamianets-Podilskyi | ![]() |
23,600 Jews | |
Pavoloch massacre | September 5, 1941 | Pavoloch | ![]() |
1,500 Jews | |
Nikolaev massacre | September 16–30, 1941 | Mykolaiv | ![]() |
35,782 mostly Jews | |
Babi Yar massacre | September 29, 1941 | Babi Yar | ![]() |
33,771 Jews | |
Berdychiv massacre | October 5, 1941 | Berdychiv | ![]() |
20,000–38,536 Jews | |
1941 Odessa massacre | October 22–24, 1941 | Odessa | ![]() ![]() local crowds |
25,000–100,000 Jews | |
Drobitsky Yar | December 15, 1941 | Kharkiv | ![]() |
15,000 Jews | |
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia | March 1943 – December 1944 | Volhynia | ![]() |
60,000–100,000 Poles | |
Koriukivka massacre | March 1–2, 1943 | Koriukivka | ![]() |
6,700 | |
Janowa Dolina massacre | April 23, 1943 | Janowa Dolina | Ukrainian nationalists | 600+ Poles | |
Hurby massacre | June 2, 1943 | Hurby | ![]() |
250 Poles | |
Dominopol massacre | July 11, 1943 | Dominopol | ![]() |
490 Poles | |
Gurów massacre | July 11, 1943 | Gurów | ![]() |
410 Poles | |
Poryck massacre | July 11, 1943 | Poryck | ![]() |
300 Poles | |
Zagaje massacre | July 11–12, 1943 | Zagaje | ![]() |
260–350 Poles | |
Budy Ossowskie massacre | August 29, 1943 | Budy Ossowskie | ![]() |
290 Poles | |
Głęboczyca massacre | August 29, 1943 | Głęboczyca | ![]() |
250 Poles | |
Wola Ostrowiecka massacre | August 30, 1943 | Wola Ostrowiecka | ![]() |
529 Poles | |
December 10, 1943 | Tarassiwka (Kiew-Swjatoschyn) | 400 Jews | |||
Huta Pieniacka massacre | February 28, 1944 | Huta Pieniacka | Ukrainian nationalists | 500–1,200 Poles | |
March 10, 1944 | Sahryn | ![]() |
800-1,240 Ukrainians | ||
Pawłokoma massacre | March 3, 1945 | Pawłokoma | ![]() |
150-500 Ukrainians | |
April 11, 1945 | Sufczyna | ![]() |
several hundreds Ukrainians | ||
Karavan shooting | September 26, 2012 | Kyiv | Yaroslav Mazurok | 3 | |
Kharkiv beheadings | December 15, 2012 | Kharkiv | Unknown | 4 | Murder of judge Vladimir Trofimov and his relatives |
February 2014 Euromaidan violence | February 18–21, 2014 | Kyiv | Government of Viktor Yanukovych | 100+ | |
2014 Odessa clashes | May 2, 2014 | Odessa | pro-Ukrainian activists | 48 | |
Murder of Pentecostals in Slaviansk | June 2014 | Slaviansk | Russian Orthodox Army | 4 | |
Novosvitlivka refugee convoy attack | August 18, 2014 | Novosvitlivka, Luhansk Oblast | ![]() |
17 | |
Volnovakha bus attack | January 13, 2015 | Volnovakha | ![]() |
12 | |
January 2015 Mariupol rocket attack | January 24, 2015 | Mariupol | ![]() |
31 | |
2015 Kharkiv bombing | February 22, 2015 | Kharkiv | Kharkiv Partizans (suspected) | 4 | |
Kerch Polytechnic College massacre | October 17, 2018 | Kerch, Crimea | Vladislav Roslyakov | 21 | School shooting and nail-bomb attack |
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