Credit: Половко Сергей НиколаевичCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenPivdenmash factory, Dnipro, Ukraine · 2022
A National Guard of Ukraine conscript shot dead five people and wounded five others at a Pivdenmash factory in Dnipro on 27 January 2022 while weapons were being distributed to servicemen.
Near Poltava, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine · 2023
Ukrainian military intelligence orchestrated the August 2023 defection of Russian Mi-8 pilot Maxim Kuzminov, during which two fellow crew members were killed by Ukrainian soldiers after the helicopter landed; Kuzminov himself was found shot dead in Spain in February 2024.
SOLVEDListenKherson, Ukraine · 2018
Ukrainian activist Kateryna Handziuk died of chemical burns after an acid attack outside her home in Kherson on 31 July 2018; the case remained unsolved until 2023, when two men were convicted of organizing and arranging her murder.
Intersection of Viacheslava Chornovila and Kruhova streets, Chernihiv, Ukraine · 2022
On 3 March 2022, Russian forces carried out airstrikes on a residential area of Chernihiv, Ukraine, killing 47 people during the siege of the city amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch described the attack as a potential war crime.
Industrialnyi District, Kharkiv, Ukraine · 2022
On 15 April 2022, Russian forces fired cluster munitions into a residential area and playground in Kharkiv's Industrialnyi District, killing 9 civilians and wounding 35, an attack Amnesty International described as a possible war crime.
Credit: PrymasalCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenTeatralna Square, Lutsk, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine · 2020
On 21 July 2020, Maksym Kryvosh seized a passenger bus with 13 people aboard in Lutsk, Ukraine, holding them hostage for hours and issuing political and social demands before surrendering to police; all hostages were released unharmed.
SOLVEDListenCzarny Las (Black Forest), near Pawełcze, Stanisławów region · 1941
In August 1941, Gestapo forces under SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Krueger arrested roughly 250 members of the Polish intelligentsia in Stanisławów and, days later, shot around 250–300 Poles and Jews in the Czarny Las forest near the village of Pawełcze.
SOLVEDListenKamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine (formerly Soviet Ukraine) · 1941
In August 1941, German police and Einsatzgruppen units, together with Hungarian soldiers and Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, murdered an estimated 23,600 Jews in and around Kamianets-Podilskyi, in what is now Ukraine, including thousands of Jews deported from Hungary days earlier.
SOLVEDListenVinnytsia, Ukraine · 1930
Between 1937 and 1938, the Soviet secret police (NKVD) secretly executed more than 9,000 people in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, during the Great Purge; the mass graves were discovered and exhumed by Nazi German and international commissions in 1943.
Bilohorivka, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine · 2022
On 7 May 2022, Russian forces bombed a school in Bilohorivka, Luhansk Oblast, where around 90 civilians were sheltering, killing at least two people with dozens more feared dead under the rubble.
The files run from 1930 to 2023. The 2020s hold the most, with 17 files. The oldest is Vinnytsia massacre, from 1930.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (3), arson cases (2) and mass shooting cases (1).
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Babi Jar ravijn — Credit: Markv at Dutch WikipediaCC BY-SA 3.0Source
First anniversary of Kramatorsk railway station attack (01) — Credit: Donetsk Regional Military Civil AdministrationCC BY 4.0Source
Днепр Южмаш - Главная проходная — Credit: Половко Сергей НиколаевичCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Novy Malin 13072010 — Credit: Dajda4603CC BY 3.0Source
The last Jew in Vinnitsa, 1941 — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
Prospekt Marshala Zhukova — Credit: Кащавцев Александр (w:Участник:Alex-K)Public domainSource
Dormitory in Chernihiv after Russian airstrike on 13 March 2022 (15) — Credit: National Police of UkraineCC BY 4.0Source
Луцьк, Пам'ятник поетесі і громадській діячці Лесі Українці — Credit: PrymasalCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Kol.Gaj — Credit: Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny (WIG)Public domainSource
27. By status: 7 unsolved, 10 ongoing and 10 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Vinnytsia massacre, from 1930. Open the file
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