# List of disasters in Ukraine by death toll

The list of disasters in Ukraine by death toll includes major disasters and accidents – excluding warfare and other intentional acts – that took place on Ukrainian soil, involved the Ukrainian military, or the predominant number of victims were Ukrainians or Ukrainian citizens.

## Over 100 confirmed deaths

| Disaster | Type | Location | Deaths | Date | Ref. |
| Kurenivka mudslide | Mudflow | Kyiv | 145 (officially) – 1500 (later unofficial investigations) | 13 March 1961 | |
| 1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision | Aviation accident | Near Kamianske | 178 | 11 August 1979 | [2] [3] |
| Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 | Aviation accident | Sukha Balka, Donetsk Oblast | 170 | 22 August 2006 | |
| Aeroflot Flight 1491 | Aviation accident | Kharkiv | 122 | 18 May 1972 | |
| 2007 Zasyadko mine disaster | Mining accident | Donetsk | 101 | 18 November 2007 | |

## 40 to 99 confirmed deaths

| Disaster | Type | Location | Deaths | Date |
| Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 | Aviation accident | Black Sea | 78 | 4 October 2001 |
| Sknyliv air show disaster | Aviation accident | Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport | 77 | 27 July 2002 |
| Aeroflot Flight 1969 | Aviation accident | Luhansk International Airport | 65 | 31 March 1971 |
| Aeroflot Flight N-826 | Aviation accident | Preobrazhenky, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast [uk] | 55 | 3 August 1969 |
| Aeroflot Flight 1802 | Aviation accident | Viktorivka, Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast | 52 | 15 May 1976 |
| Malév Flight 110 | Aviation accident | Near Boryspil International Airport | 49 | 16 September 1971 |
| Aeroflot Flight N-63 | Aviation accident | Near Havryshivka Vinnytsia International Airport | 48 | 12 November 1971 |
| Aeroflot Flight N-36 | Aviation accident | Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) | 48 | 17 December 1976 |
| Chernobyl disaster | Nuclear accident | Chernobyl | 45–64 | 26 April 1986 |
| Marhanets train accident | Traffic collision | Marhanets | 45 | 12 October 2010 |
| 1959 Lviv An-10 crash [uk] | Aviation accident | Lviv | 40 | 16 November 1959 |

## 20 to 39 confirmed deaths

| Disaster | Type | Location | Deaths | Date | Ref. |
| 1985 Zolochiv mid-air collision | Aviation accident | Near Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast | 94 | 3 May 1985 | [18] [19] |
| Korystivka station train accident [uk] | Train wreck | Korystivka [uk] | 44 | 6 November 1986 | |
| Aeroflot Flight 315 (1959) | Aviation accident | Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport | 40 | 16 November 1959 | |
| Aeroflot Flight 3630 | Aviation accident | Near Dnipro | 37 | 2 September 1970 | |
| 2015 Zasyadko mine disaster | Mining accident | Donetsk | 34 | 4 March 2015 | |
| Korsun Mine No.1 accident [uk] | Mining accident | Horlivka | 33 | 13 March 1917 | |
| 1960 Lviv An-10 crash [uk] | Aviation accident | Lviv | 32 | 26 February 1960 | |
| 2011 Ukraine mine accidents | Mining accident | Molodohvardiisk and Makiivka | 29 | 29 July 2011 | |
| Aeroflot Flight 036 | Aviation accident | Tarasovychi, Kyiv Oblast [uk] | 27 | 17 August 1960 | |
| 2008 Yevpatoria gas explosion | Gas explosion | Yevpatoria | 27 | 24 December 2008 | |
| 2020 Chuhuiv An-26 crash | Aviation accident | Highway M03 near Chuhuiv Air Base | 26 | 25 September 2020 | |
| 2007 Dnipro apartment building explosion [uk] | Gas explosion | Dnipro | 23 | 13 October 2007 | |
| Borki train disaster | Train wreck | Birky, Chuhuiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast | 21 | 29 October 1888 | |

## 10 to 19 confirmed deaths

| Disaster | Type | Location | Deaths | Date |
| December 2019 Odesa fire [uk] | Structure fire | Odesa | 16 | 4 December 2019 |
| 2021 Kharkiv fire | Structure fire | Kharkiv | 15 | 21 January 2021 |
| 2023 Brovary helicopter crash | Aviation accident | Brovary | 14 | 18 February 2023 |
| 2008 Ukraine coal mine collapse | Mining accident | Yenakiieve | 13 | 8 June 2008 |
| Vyry bus–train collision | Traffic collision | Vyry, Sumy Oblast [uk] | 12 | 4 February 2014 |

## Fewer than 10 confirmed deaths

| Disaster | Type | Location | Deaths | Date | Ref. |
| Aeroflot Flight N-528 | Aviation accident | Berdiansk Airport | 8 | 19 June 1987 | |
| Stepova mine explosion [uk] | Mining accident | Hlukhiv, Lviv Oblast | 8 | 2 March 2017 | |
| 1995 Borodianka mid-air collision | Aviation accident | Borodianka Raion | 7 | 10 February 1995 | |
| Odesa psychiatric hospital fire [uk] | Structure fire | Odesa | 7 | 10 June 2019 | |
| Kryachki oil depot fire [uk] | Structure fire | Kryachki | 6 | 8 June 2015 | |
| 2013 Horlivka chemical accident | Chemical accident | Horlivka | 5 | 6 August 2013 | |
| South Airlines Flight 8971 | Aviation accident | Donetsk International Airport | 5 | 13 February 2013 | |
| Ukraine Air Alliance Flight 4050 | Aviation accident | Lviv | 5 | 4 October 2019 | |
| Zaporizhia Regional Infectious Diseases Clinical Hospital fire [uk] | Structure fire | Zaporizhzhia | 4 | 3–4 February 2021 | [45] [46] |
| Camp Viktoriia fire [uk] | Structure fire | Odesa | 3 | 16 September 2017 | |
| 2024 Black Sea oil spill | Shipwrecking | Kerch Strait | 1 | 15 December 2024 | |