Myrotvorets

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proper noun

A Ukrainian government-backed website that publishes a running list, and often personal information, of people who are considered by authors of the website to be enemies of Ukraine.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Mirotvorets

  1. InternetA Ukrainian government-backed website that publishes a running list, and often personal information, of people who are considered by authors of the website to be enemies of Ukraine.

    But within hours, Myrotvorets (or Peacemaker), a Ukrainian website with close ties to law enforcement agencies and hackers, “blacklisted” them in their online database of more than 130,000 names – because the plane was bound for Russia-annexed Crimea.

    2019 August 27, Mansur Mirovalev, “Peacemaker: The Ukrainian website shaming pro-Russia voices”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2022
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    This estimate is contested by the estimates of the Ukrainian pro-governmental website Mirotvorets, which regularly publishes data of identified separatists. Mirotvorets puts the total number of Russian foreign fighters, excluding regular military, at around 50-80,000. However, there is one common thread in the numbers provided by the Union of Donbass Volunteers and Mirotvorets:[…]

    2017 May 30, Kacper Rekawek, Not Only Syria? The Phenomenon of Foreign Fighters in a Comparative Perspective, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 64

    I had asked him about the Myrotvorets (Peacemaker) organization, which hosts a database he described as a political instrument for counterterrorism in Ukraine. Launched in December 2014, Myrotvorets collects personal information about people believed to be conspiring against the country.[…]Myrotvorets and its separatist counterpart Tribunal offer concrete examples of the difficulties of researching politicized contexts like war.

    2023 December 6, Ilmari Käihkö, "Slava Ukraini!": Strategy and the Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance, 2014-2023, Helsinki University Press, →ISBN, page 32

Origin

  1. UkrainianМиротво́рець
  2. EnglishMyrotvorets

Borrowed from Ukrainian Миротво́рець (Myrotvórecʹ, literally “Peacemaker”).

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APA

Myrotvorets. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Myrotvorets

MLA

“Myrotvorets.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Myrotvorets. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Myrotvorets,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Myrotvorets.

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