The massacre of Grischino was committed by the Red Army in February 1943 in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, earlier named Postyschevo, Krasnoarmeyskoye, and Grishino. The massacre followed the capture of the town by the advancing Soviet army. A total of 596 prisoners of war, nurses, construction workers and female communication personnel (Nachrichtenhelferinnen) were killed. The Wehrmacht Untersuchungsstelle also known as WuSt, announced that among the victims were 406 soldiers of the Wehrmacht, 58 members of the Organisation Todt, 89 Italian soldiers, nine Romanian soldiers, four Hungarian soldiers, 15 German civil officials, seven German civilian workers and eight Ukrainian collaborators.