List of assassinations in Europe

Assassinations which took place on the continent of Europe include the following.
For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious or political reasons.

Belgium

Cyprus

Finland

Greece

Ireland

Date	Victim	Assassin	Notes
	Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath	Gilla-Gan-Mathiar O'Maidhaigh	Durrow, County Offaly
	Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht	Manus mac Flann Ua Finaghty, Aodh mac Brian, Muircheartach mac Cathal mac Dermot mac Tadhg, Giolla na Naomh Ua Mulvihill	Assassination instigated by Conchobar ua nDiarmata, a rival for the title of King of Connacht. The victim's son Cathal Carragh Ua Conchobair later killed Conchobar ua nDiarmata in revenge.
	Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish, Chief Secretary for Ireland	Irish National Invincibles	Stabbed to death in what became known as the Phoenix Park Murders
	Thomas Henry Burke, Under-Secretary for Ireland	Irish National Invincibles	Stabbed to death in what became known as the Phoenix Park Murders
	Tomás Mac Curtain, Lord Mayor of Cork	Auxiliaries and RIC men	Shot in his home by a group of masked men, likely members of the Royal Irish Constabulary.
	Cairo Gang	Irish Republican Army	12 British intelligence agents, assassinated on the morning of 21 November 1920 in coordinated attacks.
	Michael Collins, Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State	Anti-Treaty IRA	Ambushed outside Cork
	Seán Hales, Pro-Treaty Sinn Féin Teachta Dála	Anti-Treaty IRA	Killed as he left Dáil Éireann; fellow TD Pádraic Ó Máille was injured in the same attack, which was in reprisal against executions of anti-Treaty prisoners
	Kevin O'Higgins, Minister of Home Affairs and Justice of the Irish Free State	Timothy Coughlin, Bill Gannon and Archie Doyle	Killed while on his way to Mass by three anti-Treaty members of the IRA.
	Patrick Reynolds, Cumann na nGaedheal TD	Joseph Leddy	Shot dead during the 1932 election campaign by an ex-RIC policeman who had a personal grudge against him.
	Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville, Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy	Anti-Treaty IRA	Assassinated for providing assistance to Royal Navy recruits.
	Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland	IRA	Killed by a land mine
	Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet, last Viceroy of India	IRA	Killed by a bomb on board his boat along with three other people, including his grandson.
	Eddie Fullerton, Sinn Féin county councillor	Ulster Defence Association	Shot at his home in Buncrana
	Dominic McGlinchey, Irish National Liberation Army leader		Shot 14 times while making a call in a phone box.
	Veronica Guerin, journalist	Irish mafia	Shot in a contract killing for her reporting on organized crime.

Lithuania

Netherlands

Romania

Slovenia

Turkey

Ukraine

Year	Victim	Assassin	Notes

30 July 1918	Hermann von Eichhorn	Boris Donskoy	Killed by a bomb thrown at his carriage by Boris Donskoy, a member of the Left SR's.
23 January	Mykola Leontovych, composer	Soviet state security agent Afanasy Grishchenko.	Shot in his home after a robbery
24 October	Yaroslav Halan, anti-fascist writer	Mykhailo Stakhur and Ilariy Lukashevych	Killed with an axe at his home office in Lviv by members of the OUN
24–27 April 1979	Volodymyr Ivasiuk, composer		Found hanged in a forest outside of Lviv.
7 November	Yuri Osmanov, Crimean Tatar civil rights activist		Brutally beaten by unidentified assailants and died the next day.
15 October	Akhat Bragin, businessman and president of the Shakhtar Donetsk football club		Killed by a bomb at the Shakhtar Stadium in Donetsk.
3 November	Yevhen Shcherban, People's Deputy of Ukraine		Shot dead along with his wife and bodyguard while departing a plane at Donetsk International Airport.
22 April	Vadym Hetman, former chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine		Shot by a contract killer in Kyiv.
17 September	Georgiy Gongadze, journalist	Agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs	Disappeared, found decapitated and doused in dioxine 2 months later near Tarashcha.
29 November	Stepan Senchuk, former governor of Lviv Oblast		Shot while in his car.
26 July	Oleh Babaiev, Mayor of Kremenchuk		Shot in front of his home.
13 April 2015	Serhiy Sukhobok, journalist		shot in a dacha in Kyiv
15 April 2015	Oleg Kalashnikov, former Peoples Deputy of Ukraine		Killed in his home in Kyiv.
16 April	Oles Buzina, pro-Russian writer		Shot near his home in Kyiv.
23 May 2015	Aleksey Mozgovoy, commander in Luhansk People's Republic, leader of the pro-Russian Prizrak Brigade, murderer for hire		Killed in an ambush of his motorcade on the road between Luhansk and Alchevsk, near the village of Mykhailivka, Perevalsk Raion.
20 July	Pavel Sheremet, Belarusian journalist		Died in a car explosion in Kyiv.
16 October 2016	Arsen Pavlov, Russian militant, leader of the Sparta Battalion, war criminal.		Killed alongside his bodyguard by an IED explosion in his apartment's elevator in Donetsk
8 February 2017	Mikhail Tolstykh, Ukrainian separatist officer wanted for war crimes, commander of the Somalia Battalion		Killed while working in his Donetsk office by an explosion said to be caused by an RPO-A Shmel rocket launcher.
23 March	Denis Voronenkov, former member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation	Pavel Parshov, veteran of Ukraine's volunteer battalion.	Shot dead in Kyiv while on his way to meet a fellow exiled parliamentarian, Ilya Ponomarev.
27 June	Maksym Shapoval, Intelligence officer and head of the special forces of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine		Killed in a car bombing in Kyiv
31 August	Alexander Zakharchenko, pro-Russian separatist and Head of the Donetsk People's Republic, concurrent Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic		Killed in a bomb explosion in a cafe in Donetsk
3 August	Vitaly Shishov, exiled Belarusian dissident		Found hanging in a forest after being reported missing the previous day
2 March	Volodymyr Struk, Mayor of Kreminna		Abducted and killed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
7 March	Yuriy Prylypko, Mayor of Hostomel	Russian military	Killed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
24 March	Olga Sukhenko, Village Head of Motyzhyn	Russian military	Killed during the Russian occupation of Bucha
	Ivan Sushko, Russian-appointed head of Mykhailivka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast		Killed in a car bombing during the Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
	Oleksiy Kovalov, Member of the Verkhovna Rada	Ukrainian partisans	Shot during an attack on his residence in Zaliznyi Port.
	Iryna Farion, linguist, politician, and former People's Deputy of Ukraine		Shot by an unknown assailant in the head in Lviv, pending investigation.
14 March 2025	Demyan Hanul, activist and member of the Right Sector		Shot in Odesa.
30 August 2025	Andriy Parubiy, former chairman of the Verkhovna Rada	Unknown	: Assassination of Andriy Parubiy