List of disasters in Ukraine by death toll

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The list of disasters in Ukraine by death toll includes major disasters and accidents – excluding warfare and other intentional acts – that took place on Ukrainian soil, involved the Ukrainian military, or the predominant number of victims were Ukrainians or Ukrainian citizens.

Over 100 confirmed deaths

Disaster	Type	Location	Deaths	Date	Ref.
Kurenivka mudslide	Mudflow	Kyiv	145 (officially) – 1500 (later unofficial investigations)	13 March 1961	[1]
1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision	Aviation accident	Near Kamianske	178	11 August 1979	[2] [3]
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612	Aviation accident	Sukha Balka, Donetsk Oblast	170	22 August 2006	[4]
Aeroflot Flight 1491	Aviation accident	Kharkiv	122	18 May 1972	[5]
2007 Zasyadko mine disaster	Mining accident	Donetsk	101	18 November 2007	[6]

40 to 99 confirmed deaths

Disaster	Type	Location	Deaths	Date	Ref.
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812	Aviation accident	Black Sea	78	4 October 2001	[7]
Sknyliv air show disaster	Aviation accident	Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport	77	27 July 2002	[8]
Aeroflot Flight 1969	Aviation accident	Luhansk International Airport	65	31 March 1971	[9]
Aeroflot Flight N-826	Aviation accident	Preobrazhenky, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast [uk]	55	3 August 1969	[10]
Aeroflot Flight 1802	Aviation accident	Viktorivka, Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast	52	15 May 1976	[11]
Malév Flight 110	Aviation accident	Near Boryspil International Airport	49	16 September 1971	[12]
Aeroflot Flight N-63	Aviation accident	Near Havryshivka Vinnytsia International Airport	48	12 November 1971	[13]
Aeroflot Flight N-36	Aviation accident	Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany)	48	17 December 1976	[14]
Chernobyl disaster	Nuclear accident	Chernobyl	45–64	26 April 1986	[15]
Marhanets train accident	Traffic collision	Marhanets	45	12 October 2010	[16]
1959 Lviv An-10 crash [uk]	Aviation accident	Lviv	40	16 November 1959	[17]

20 to 39 confirmed deaths

Disaster	Type	Location	Deaths	Date	Ref.
1985 Zolochiv mid-air collision	Aviation accident	Near Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast	94	3 May 1985	[18] [19]
Korystivka station train accident [uk]	Train wreck	Korystivka [uk]	44	6 November 1986	[20]
Aeroflot Flight 315 (1959)	Aviation accident	Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport	40	16 November 1959	[21]
Aeroflot Flight 3630	Aviation accident	Near Dnipro	37	2 September 1970	[22]
2015 Zasyadko mine disaster	Mining accident	Donetsk	34	4 March 2015	[23]
Korsun Mine No.1 accident [uk]	Mining accident	Horlivka	33	13 March 1917	[24]
1960 Lviv An-10 crash [uk]	Aviation accident	Lviv	32	26 February 1960	[25]
2011 Ukraine mine accidents	Mining accident	Molodohvardiisk and Makiivka	29	29 July 2011	[26]
Aeroflot Flight 036	Aviation accident	Tarasovychi, Kyiv Oblast [uk]	27	17 August 1960	[27]
2008 Yevpatoria gas explosion	Gas explosion	Yevpatoria	27	24 December 2008	[28]
2020 Chuhuiv An-26 crash	Aviation accident	Highway M03 near Chuhuiv Air Base	26	25 September 2020	[29]
2007 Dnipro apartment building explosion [uk]	Gas explosion	Dnipro	23	13 October 2007	[30]
Borki train disaster	Train wreck	Birky, Chuhuiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast	21	29 October 1888	[31]

10 to 19 confirmed deaths

Disaster	Type	Location	Deaths	Date	Ref.
December 2019 Odesa fire [uk]	Structure fire	Odesa	16	4 December 2019	[32]
2021 Kharkiv fire	Structure fire	Kharkiv	15	21 January 2021	[33]
2023 Brovary helicopter crash	Aviation accident	Brovary	14	18 February 2023	[34]
2008 Ukraine coal mine collapse	Mining accident	Yenakiieve	13	8 June 2008	[35]
Vyry bus–train collision	Traffic collision	Vyry, Sumy Oblast [uk]	12	4 February 2014	[36]

Fewer than 10 confirmed deaths

Disaster	Type	Location	Deaths	Date	Ref.
Aeroflot Flight N-528	Aviation accident	Berdiansk Airport	8	19 June 1987	[37]
Stepova mine explosion [uk]	Mining accident	Hlukhiv, Lviv Oblast	8	2 March 2017	[38]
1995 Borodianka mid-air collision	Aviation accident	Borodianka Raion	7	10 February 1995	[39]
Odesa psychiatric hospital fire [uk]	Structure fire	Odesa	7	10 June 2019	[40]
Kryachki oil depot fire [uk]	Structure fire	Kryachki	6	8 June 2015	[41]
2013 Horlivka chemical accident	Chemical accident	Horlivka	5	6 August 2013	[42]
South Airlines Flight 8971	Aviation accident	Donetsk International Airport	5	13 February 2013	[43]
Ukraine Air Alliance Flight 4050	Aviation accident	Lviv	5	4 October 2019	[44]
Zaporizhia Regional Infectious Diseases Clinical Hospital fire [uk]	Structure fire	Zaporizhzhia	4	3–4 February 2021	[45] [46]
Camp Viktoriia fire [uk]	Structure fire	Odesa	3	16 September 2017	[47]
2024 Black Sea oil spill	Shipwrecking	Kerch Strait	1	15 December 2024	[48]

See also

• List of disasters in Antarctica by death toll
• List of disasters in Canada by death toll
• List of disasters in Croatia by death toll
• List of disasters in Germany by death toll
• List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll
• List of disasters in New Zealand by death toll
• List of disasters in Poland by death toll
• List of disasters in Sweden by death toll
• List of disasters in the United States by death toll