The urban-type settlement of Gostomel, Buchansky district, badly damaged during the Russian invasion of the Kyiv region, they want to turn into a city. The relevant bill has already been registered in Parliament..
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The status of the city provides the settlement with certain rights that distinguish it from a number of rural settlements..
In Ukraine, a settlement can receive the status of a city only under a separate law of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and provided that at least 10 thousand inhabitants live in the settlement. At the same time, the “overwhelming majority” of the population should be employed in sectors outside agriculture..
According to the State Statistics Service for 2020, about 17 thousand people officially lived in Gostomel.
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