mobnik
English edit
Etymology edit
From mobik, likely influenced by vatnik (“unintelligent Russian patriot”) and, more generally, the -nik suffix associated with Slavic languages.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mobnik (plural mobniks)
- Nonstandard spelling of mobik (“Russian conscript”).
- 2022 September 25, @TrentTelenko, Twitter[1]:
- Russia should be using these people to cadre out the 'Mobniks.'
- 2022 October 21, @krus_chiki, Twitter[2]:
- Don’t know if these are Mobniks or volunteers, i do know this is in Russia, but Soviet pouches are still alive and well. I figure we’ll see more of em
- 2023 February 2, Malcolm Nance, Twitter[3]:
- So now a Russian Mobnik who has had enough can be caught and executed by North Koreans enforcers. Amazing.
- 2023 November 21, Michael Weiss, Twitter[4]:
- Compared to last year when hordes of prisoners died for Bakhmut, Russia's losses come in the majority now from the rows of mobniks.
- 2023 December 17, EUvsDisinfo, Twitter[5]:
- Absurdity at its best - claiming to preserve Russian soldiers' lives while its bloody meat-grinder consumes tens of thousands of Russian mobniks and 'Z-warriors'.
- 2023 December 30, Jason Jay Smart, Chuck Pfarrer, “ANALYSIS: Perception vs. Reality – Russia Is Losing, Not Winning”, in Kyiv Post[6]:
- The plain truth is that Russia can no longer win its war in Ukraine. Not with the force posture it has now, not with the tactics and leadership it has, and certainly not with the conscripted army of untrained convicts and mobniks that it is hustling onto the battlefield.