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 |
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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. |
Massacres during World War II
Name | Date | Location | Perpetrators | Deaths | Notes |
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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.[4] |
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 | |
Budy Ossowskie massacre | August 29, 1943 | Budy Ossowskie | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | 290 Poles | |
Głęboczyca massacre | August 29, 1943 | Głęboczyca | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | 250 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 |
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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 |
Other events
These events involving multiple deaths in Ukraine are not widely known, or recognised, as 'massacres'.
See also
References
- ^ Perfecky, George (1973). The Hypatian Codex. Munich, Germany: Wilhelm Fink Publishing House. pp. 43–49.
- ^ Davison, Derek (6 December 2019). "Today in European history: the Mongols sack Kyiv (1240)". fx.substack.com. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
- ^ Łukasz Zalesiński. "Lato z czerwonym terrorem". Polska Zbrojna (in Polish). Retrieved 10 December 2023.
- ^ Zbrodnia katyńska (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. 2020. p. 16. ISBN 978-83-8098-825-5.
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