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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] | |
| 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 | |
| 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. [3] |
| 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 | |
| Volnovakha massacre | 27 October 2023 | Volnovakha | Russia | 9 | including two children |
These events involving multiple deaths in Ukraine are not widely known, or recognised, as 'massacres'.
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