Hostomel

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English

The flag of Hostomel

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Etymology

Borrowed from Ukrainian Госто́мель (Hostómelʹ).

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Hostomel

  1. A rural settlement, the administrative centre of the settlement hromada of the same name of Bucha Raion, Kyiv Oblast, the Ukraine, first mentioned in 1494, designated a hero city on the 6th of March 2022.
    • 2024 September 15th, “Perun” (channel name), “The Paradrop Problem”, in Disappointing Systems in Ukraine – From imprecise precision munitions to explosive IFVs, via YouTube, 31:11–31:25:
      The heliborne VDV forces landing at Hostomel in February 2022 suffered extensively, but I feel pretty confident projecting that casualties would have been much, much higher if they’d flown a bunch of Aleutian 76ers towards Kyiv instead.
    1. A settlement hromada in Bucha Raion, Kyiv Oblast, the Ukraine, established on the 12th of June 2020.

Meronyms

(constituent settlements and administrative organs of the settlement hromada): Hostomel (rural settlement, selrada); Horenka, Moshchun, Ozera (villages, starosta okruhy)

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