Hostomel, One Year On (with Operator Starsky)
February 21, 2023
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as posted by the channelThe Russians hoped they could take the airfield at Hostomel. They thought wrong. As such their plans fell into disarray. In those crucial first 72 hours the Ukrainians who held the line changed the course of the war. And, in my opinion, the course of history.
The battle could have gone either way. It was on a Knife's edge. If the Russians had taken it and flown in a large battle force which entered into Kyiv proper would the Western powers been so eager to send help? Or would they have waited to see what a "Battle for Kyiv" would look like? Thankfully, we'll never know. Because the Ukrainians held.
Almost a full year from those historic events Operator Starsky (Andrii) met me at the site of the battle in which he fought. Starsky is known to many from his vlogs from Ukraine about his experience as a soldier in the ZSU (Armed Forces of Ukraine).
We had issues with weather but I'm glad we had the chance to meet IRL after corresponding off and on through this difficult year.
It was a good way to spend, what Andrii calls, the 380th-something Day of February 2022. The day everything changed.
MUSIC: "Никогда мы не будем братьями" by my friend Анастасии Дмитрук
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