# 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 | November 28–December 6, 1240 | Kyiv | Mongol Empire | 48,000 | 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 | Russian Empire | ~7,000-15,000 Ukrainians | After the capture of the city, its entire civil population was massacred by Russian forces |
| Executions of Cossacks in Lebedyn | 1708-1709 | Lebedyn | Russian Empire | 900 | Executions of pro-Swedish Cossacks who betrayed the oath of allegiance to the Russian Tsar |
| 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 | 100 Jews | |
| Pogroms of the Russian Civil War | 1918–1923 | Ukraine and Southern Russia | AFSR, White movement   (17-50% of killings)$^{:45}$ Green armies Red Army   (2-9% of killings) Ukrainian People's Army   (25-54% of killings) | 50,000–250,000 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 | |
| Leonówka massacre | August 1-2, 1943 | Leonówka, Tuchyn | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | 190 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 | |
| Teresin massacre | August 29, 1943 | Teresin, Włodzimierz County | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | 207 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 | during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a building housing Ukrainian prisoners of war in a Russian-operated prison in Molodizhne near Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast, was destroyed, killing 53 to 62 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) and leaving 75 to 130 wounded. |
| 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. |
| Karavan shooting | September 26, 2012 | Kyiv | Yaroslav Mazurok | 3 | The victims were four security guards of the vicinity; only one survived. The suspect was later found dead on November 7 that same year. |
| Trofimov Beheadings | December 15, 2012 | Kharkiv | Unknown | 4 | The 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 | Clashes between pro-Maidan protesters and anti-Maidan, pro-Russian protesters resulted in deaths of 48 people. |
| 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 | |
| Dnipro shooting | January 27, 2022 | Dnipro | Artemiy Yuryovich Riabchuk | 5 | An additional 5 people were injured. The shooting occurred early in the morning. |
| 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+ | |