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This is a list ofmassacres that have occurred in the modern day areas ofUkraine.
| Name | Date | Location | Perpetrators | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siege of Kyiv[1] | November 28–December 6, 1240 | Kyiv |  Mongol Empire | 48,000[2] | The Mongols underBatu Khan cross the frozenDnieper 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 theChurch 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] |
| Khmelnytsky pogroms (Tach Vetat) | 1648–1649 | Nationwide |  Cossacks | 20,000–100,000 Jews | SeeJewish 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 "SarmatianKatyń" |
| Kaffa massacre | October 1667 | Kaffa | Cossacks | 2,000 Crimean Tatars | The city was sacked by the Cossacks, with 2,000 Crimean Tatars massacred, along with 1,500 Crimean Tatar women and children taken captive |
| Arbautuk massacre | October 1667 | Arbautuk | Cossacks | Thousands of Crimean Tatars | |
| 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 byhaidamaks |
| 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 | Between 18 and 22 October 1905, ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, and Greeks killed over 400 to 1.000 Jews and damaged or destroyed over 1600 Jewish properties. |
| 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 andSouthern 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 |
| Lwów pogrom | 21-23 November 1918 | Lviv |  Polish army | 340 Jews and Ukrainians | |
| Fastiv massacre | September 1919 | Fastiv |  White Army | 1,000–1,500 Jews | Pogrom against the Jewish population of city of Fastov by units of the White Army. |
| 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.[8] |
| Vinnytsia massacre | 1937–1938 | Vinnytsia |  Soviet Union | 9,432 Ukrainians and Poles | Part of theGreat 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 theRussian invasion of Ukraine, a building housing Ukrainian prisoners of war in a Russian-operated prison inMolodizhne nearOlenivka,Donetsk Oblast, was destroyed, killing 53 to 62 Ukrainianprisoners of war (POWs) and leaving 75 to 130 wounded.[10] |
| 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'.
