See mobik in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2022 October 6, Isabel van Brugen, “Putin Has 'Lost Control' as Infighting Breaks Out Among Russia's Elite”, in Newsweek:",
"text": "\"The video was posted on and being reposted by pro-Wagner channels, which matches Prigozhin's 'Fire Shojgu' narrative...Also some Wagner patches are visible on it. Nearly all 'poor mobiks' (mobilized men) on the video wear balaclavas,\" Krutov wrote.",
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"ref": "2022 October 16, Neil MacFarquhar, “'Coffins Are Already Coming': The Toll of Russia's Chaotic Draft”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "The Defense Ministry has pumped out a stream of videos showing happy \"mobiks,\" as the recruits are known in Russian slang, learning to shoot, attack tanks, tie a tourniquet, plant a land mine and other military tasks.",
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"A Russian conscript during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially a young man with little to no fighting experience."
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"(informal, derogatory, Internet, military, sometimes humorous) A Russian conscript during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially a young man with little to no fighting experience."
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},
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],
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