[6] The mass murder was committed as a retribution for Soviet partisan activities headed by Oleksiy Fedorov.

The Koriukivka massacre was the largest German punitive operation against civilians in World War II.

[6] During the German occupation, the village of Koriukivka was a center of Soviet partisan warfare in Chernihiv Oblast.

When some residents, anticipating the forthcoming killings, had tried to escape, the Germans started to enter all houses, shooting down every occupant.

[4] According to historian Dmytro Vedeneyev, the massacre was committed by SS and collaborationist auxiliary police.

[8] According to the documents released from Russian archives on request of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory in 2011, the perpetrators of the massacre were the soldiers of the Hungarian 105 light infantry division under command of general-lieutenant Zoltan Algya-Pap, in cooperation with a Schutzmannschaft bataillon of local collaborators,[9] for which he was tried in 1947 and sentenced to labor camps.