List of massacres in Ukraine

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This is a list of massacres in Ukraine.

Overviews of massacres in Ukraine  Name  | Date  | Location  | Perpetrators  | Deaths  | Notes

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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  |
Vinnytsia massacre | 1937–1938  | Vinnytsia |  Soviet Union | 9,432 Ukrainians | Part of the Great Purge.
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 | 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 |
Sarny massacre | August 27–28, 1942  | Sarny |  Nazi Germany | 14,000–18,000 Jews  |
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  |
Sahryn massacre [uk] | March 10, 1944  | Sahryn |  Armia Krajowa | 800–1,240 Ukrainians  |
Chodaczków Wielki massacre | April 16, 1944  | Chodaczków Wielki | 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) | 862 Poles  |
Pawłokoma massacre | March 3, 1945  | Pawłokoma | post Armia Krajowa units  | 150–500 Ukrainians  |
Sufczyna massacre [uk] | April 11, 1945  | Sufczyna | post Armia Krajowa units  | several hundred Ukrainians  |
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

## Other events[edit]

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

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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+  |

## See also[edit]

* Holodomor

## References[edit]

1. ^ Perfecky, George (1973). The Hypatian Codex. Munich, Germany: Wilhelm Fink Publishing House. pp. 43–49.
2. ^ Davison, Derek (6 December 2019). "Today in European history: the Mongols sack Kyiv (1240)". fx.substack.com. Retrieved 2020-07-30.

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