Name | Date | Location | Perpetrators | Deaths | Notes |
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Siege of Kyiv[1] | November 28–December 6, 1240 | Kyiv | Mongol Empire | [2] | The Mongols under Batu Khan cross the frozen Dnieper River and lay siege to the city of Kiev. On December 6, the walls are rendered rubble by Chinese catapults and the Mongols pour into the city. Brutal hand-to-hand street fighting occurs, the Kievans are eventually forced to fall back to the central parts of the city. Many people take refuge in the Church of the Blessed Virgin. As scores of terrified Kievans climb onto the Church's upper balcony to shield themselves from Mongol arrows, their collective weight strain its infrastructure, causing the roof to collapse and crush countless citizens under its weight. Of a total population of 50,000, 48,000 are massacred. |
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 | | | 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 | Massacre of the Jews, Poles and Ukrainian Uniates by haidamaks |
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 | | |
Pogroms of the Russian Civil War | 1918–1923 | Ukraine and Southern Russia | AFSR, White movement (17-50% of killings) | Russian Civil War">Web site: YIVO Russian Civil War . 2022-11-08 . yivoencyclopedia.org. Green armies Red Army (2-9% of killings)[3] Ukrainian People's Army(25-54% of killings)[4] | 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.[5] |
| 1937–1938 | Vinnytsia | | | Part of the Great Purge. | |
Name | Date | Location | Perpetrators | Deaths | Notes |
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Katyn massacre | April–May 1940 | Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv | | | 7,247 of the 22,000 victims of the massacre were murdered in the three Ukrainians cities.[6] |
Lunca massacre | February 7, 1941 | Lunca | | Over 600 | Massacre of Romanians |
Fântâna Albă massacre | April 1, 1941 | Fântâna Albă | | 44 (Soviet & Russian claim) 3,000 (Romanian claim) | Massacre of Romanians |
NKVD prisoner massacres in Ukraine | June–November 1941 | In 78 prisons across Ukraine | | | By Stalin's orders |
Lviv pogroms (1941) | June 1941 – July 1941 | Lviv | OUN-B, Einsatzgruppen, Ukrainian nationalists, local crowds | | |
Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre | August 27–28, 1941 | Kamianets-Podilskyi | Ukrainian Auxiliary Police | | |
Pavoloch massacre | September 5, 1941 | Pavoloch | | | |
Nikolaev massacre | September 16–30, 1941 | Mykolaiv | | | |
Babi Yar massacre | September 29–30, 1941 | Babi Yar | | | |
Berdychiv massacre (1941) | October 5, 1941 | Berdychiv | | 20,000–38,536 Jews | |
1941 Odessa massacre | October 22–24, 1941 | Odesa |
local crowds | 25,000–100,000 Jews | |
Drobitsky Yar | December 15, 1941 | Kharkiv | | | |
Artemivsk massacre | January 11, 1942 | Artemivsk (now Bakhmut) | | 1,317–3,000 Jews | |
Sarny massacre | August 27–28, 1942 | Sarny | | 14,000–18,000 Jews | |
Massacre of Grischino | February 1943 | Pokrovsk | | | 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 | | | |
Janowa Dolina massacre | April 23, 1943 | Janowa Dolina | Ukrainian nationalists | | |
Hurby massacre | June 2, 1943 | Hurby | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | | |
Dominopol massacre | July 11, 1943 | Dominopol | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | | |
Gurów massacre | July 11, 1943 | Gurów | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | | |
Poryck massacre | July 11, 1943 | Poryck | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | | |
Zagaje massacre | July 11–12, 1943 | Zagaje | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | 260–350 Poles | |
Budy Ossowskie massacre | August 29, 1943 | Budy Ossowskie | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | | |
Głęboczyca massacre | August 29, 1943 | Głęboczyca | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | | |
Wola Ostrowiecka massacre | August 30, 1943 | Wola Ostrowiecka | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | | |
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 | | |
These events involving multiple deaths in Ukraine are not widely known, or recognised, as 'massacres'.
Other events involving multiple deaths in UkraineName | Date | Location | Perpetrators | Deaths | Notes |
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Dnepropetrovsk maniacs | June 25-July 16, 2007 | Dnipro | Viktor Sayenko, Igor Suprunyuk | | Two 19-year old boys killed 21 people. |
Leskovitsa Killings | April 20–21, 2010 | Chernihiv | Oleksandr Sergov | | 1 Wounded, A Neo-Nazi kills three people with a shovel in Chernihiv's Leskovitsa neighborhood |
Trofimov Beheadings | December 15, 2012 | Kharkiv | Unknown | | Murder of judge Vladimir Trofimov and his relatives |
Revolution of Dignity | February 18–21, 2014 | Kyiv | Government of Viktor Yanukovych (Berkut) | | Including 2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots |
2014 Odesa clashes | May 2, 2014 | Odesa | Euromaidanites (and Anti-Maidanites) | | |
Murder of Pentecostals in Sloviansk | June 2014 | Sloviansk | Russian Orthodox Army | | |
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 | July 17, 2014 | Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast | | 298 | |
Novosvitlivka refugee convoy attack | August 18, 2014 | Novosvitlivka, Luhansk Oblast | Luhansk People's Republic | | |
Volnovakha bus attack | January 13, 2015 | Volnovakha | | | |
Siege of Chernihiv | February 24–April 4, 2022 | Chernihiv | | 700+ | |
Chernihiv bombing | March 3, 2022 | Chernihiv | | 47 | Part of Siege of Chernihiv |
March 2022 Donetsk attack | March 14, 2022 | Donetsk |
| 23 | |
Chernihiv breadline attack | March 16, 2022 | Chernihiv | | 14 | Part of Siege of Chernihiv |
Mariupol theatre airstrike | March 16, 2022 | Mariupol | | 12 (Amnesty International) 600 (AP) | Part of Siege of Mariupol |
Mykolaiv government building airstrike | March 29, 2022 | Mykolaiv | | 37 | Part of Battle of Mykolaiv |
Kramatorsk railway station attack | April 8, 2022 | Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast | | 59 | |
Bilohorivka school bombing | May 7, 2022 | Bilohorivka, Luhansk Oblast | | 2 (confirmed) 60 (claim) | |
2022 Kremenchuk missile strike | June 27, 2022 | Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast | | 21 | Missile airstrike of Amstor mall |
Izium mass graves | Discovered on 15 September 2022 | Izium, Kharkiv Oblast | Russian Ground Forces | 440+ | | |