"vatnyk" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Ukrainian ва́тник (vátnyk).",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "Resort to using old, Soviet rhetoric which remains an effective means of influencing the zombie population of vatnyks.",
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          "ref": "2022 March 14, Olegh Bondarenko, “This will be completely new Ukraine”, in Medium",
          "text": "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”).",
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          "ref": "2022 August 19, u/RepresentativeLink95, Reddit, archived from the original on 2024-01-05",
          "text": "I personally like the acronym LGBTCIA. some deranged vatnyk buffoon called me it on tumblr and I thought it was funny.",
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          "ref": "2023 December 17, Szczepan Twardoch, “Darkness over Donbas: Nine stories about war”, in The Point",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "Resort to using old, Soviet rhetoric which remains an effective means of influencing the zombie population of vatnyks.",
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          "ref": "2022 March 14, Olegh Bondarenko, “This will be completely new Ukraine”, in Medium",
          "text": "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”).",
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          "ref": "2022 August 19, u/RepresentativeLink95, Reddit, archived from the original on 2024-01-05",
          "text": "I personally like the acronym LGBTCIA. some deranged vatnyk buffoon called me it on tumblr and I thought it was funny.",
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          "text": "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.",
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