Chudei (; ; ; ) is a village in

Chernivtsi Raion Chernivtsi Raion () is a raion (district) of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. It was created on 18 July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. Most of its territory is located in the historical region of Bukovina, while the ...

Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast (), also referred to as Chernivechchyna (), is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the historical regions of Bukovina and Bessarabia. It has an international border with Romania and Moldo ...

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. It hosts the administration of Chudei rural hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Until 18 July 2020, Chudei belonged to

Storozhynets Raion Storozhynets Raion (, ) was a raion (administrative district) in Chernivtsi Oblast, (province), in the historical region of Bukovina, in western part of Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion was the city of Storozhynets. It bordered wi ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Storozhynets Raion was merged into Chernivtsi Raion. In 2001, 82.24% of the inhabitants spoke Romanian as their native language, while 13.56% spoke Ukrainian. In an interview for the Romanian newspaper ''

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'' published on 26 April 2023, the mayor of the Chudei rural hromada, Anatolie Pițul, stated that some 60 men, ethnic

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, from the localities composing the hromada were fighting in the frontlines as a result of the

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. He also said that the Chudei rural hromada had hosted a total of some 1,250 internally displaced Ukrainian citizens since the start of the war, with some 340 remaining in the hromada at the time of the interview's publication.

Notable people

* Mikhail Burla (born 1957), Transnistrian politician * Maria Rusescu (born 1936), Romanian painter

References

Villages in Chernivtsi Raion {{Chernivtsi-geo-stub