vatnyk

plural vatnyks

1. alternativerareAlternative form of vatnik.

   Resort to using old, Soviet rhetoric which remains an effective means of influencing the zombie population of vatnyks.

   2018 May 30, “Useful Idiots: Kremlin's scheme to legalise the occupation of Ukraine in Europe is failing”, in Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Iraq

   3 more examples

   Kharkiv, Mariupol, Slovyansk will start to become Ukrainian in front of our eyes. Because it is already unprestigious to stay “vatnyk” (literally — “a jacket quilted with cotton wool” — means “russian follower”).

   2022 March 14, Olegh Bondarenko, “This will be completely new Ukraine”, in Medium

   I personally like the acronym LGBTCIA. some deranged vatnyk buffoon called me it on tumblr and I thought it was funny.

   2022 August 19, u/RepresentativeLink95, Reddit, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2024

   We went back inside and then the house’s owner arrived, a sullen vatnyk whom Dmytro paid off to keep his house available for billeting, like we were doing. The vatnyk was holding a ten-liter can of water, one of the soldiers asked him to light the stove, he muttered a refusal and left.

   2023 December 17, Szczepan Twardoch, “Darkness over Donbas: Nine stories about war”, in The Point