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This is a list of massacres that have occurred in the modern day areas of Ukraine.
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This is a list of massacres that have occurred in the modern day areas of Ukraine.
| Name | Date | Location | Perpetrators | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siege of Kyiv [1] | November 28–December 6, 1240 | Kyiv |  Mongol Empire | 48,000 [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. [1] |
| 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) [3] [4] : 45 [5]  Green armies
| 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. [9] |
| Vinnytsia massacre | 1937–1938 | Vinnytsia |  Soviet Union | 9,432 Ukrainians and Poles | Part of the Great Purge. |
| 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. [11] |
| Volnovakha massacre | 27 October 2023 | Volnovakha | Russia | 9 | including two children |
These events involving multiple deaths in Ukraine are not widely known, or recognized, as 'massacres'.
