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This is a list of massacres that have occurred in the modern day areas of Ukraine.
Massacres until 1939
editName | Date | Location | Perpetrators | Deaths | Notes |
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Siege of Kyiv[1] | November 28–December 6, 1240 | Kyiv | Mongol Empire | 48,000[2] | Of a total population of 50,000, all but 2,000 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 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
editMassacres in the post-WWII period
editName | 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 |
Other events
editThese events involving multiple deaths in Ukraine are not widely known, or recognised, as 'massacres'.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.