Citations:orc

English citations of orc

Russian in the context of Ukraine

• 2015, Andrew Wilson, The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, page 354:

  Ukrainians themselves, including those on the right, preferred to call the events the 'Revolution of Dignity', depicted not in terms of ethnicity or class, but in simple civic black and white – a revolution of the people against Yanukovych's 'Mordor' and his 'Orcs'.

• 2015, Anna Reid, Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine:

  Least likely to support the People's Republics were the educated middle classes, who were furious with Kiev for failing to nip the insurrection in the bud ('Three babushki with fly-swats could have done it!') and whose whispered nickname for the thugs taking over their streets was 'orcs'.

• 2022 March 1, Bruno Maçães, “Europe’s Illusion of Peace Has Been Irrevocably Shattered”, in Time:

  And now we must watch the old world go up in flames, in the mad spectacle of Putin’s orcs descending upon Kyiv to execute his macabre plan.

• 2022 March 1, Vitalii Holich, “Belarusians are urged to escape the occupational units and join Ukrainian Army. Who else fights together with Ukraine against Russia”, in LVIV Now‎^[1]:

  Together with the Chechen volunteer battalion named after Dzhokhar Dudaev, the Belarusian unit of «Azov» is one of the first foreign units fighting for Ukraine against the Russian orcs.

• 2022 March 16, “The "orcs" have damaged 28 religious buildings in 6 regions of Ukraine - State Service for Ethnic Policy”, in Religious Information Service of Ukraine‎^[2]:

  (see title)

• 2022 March 16, Scott, ““I’m afraid for my husband”: Elena Zelenskaya told where she is and how she keeps in touch with the president”, in Global Happening‎^[3]:

  The twenty-first day of the Russian invasion makes it clear to everyone and everyone that Ukraine will win – it’s only a matter of time, and we have it – we will turn inside out every orc that illegally set foot on our land! With such an army, people and president, we have nothing to fear!

• 2022 March 18, Irenaeus, “The Degenerate Savagery Of Putin’s Orcs”, in Daily KOS‎^[4]:

  Putin had a free hand butchering people no one in Europe or America gave a crap about, but now Putin has unleashed his Orcs on Europe.

• 2022 July 25, Michael Wasiura, “Belarusian Exiles Join Ukrainians in Taking Up Arms Against Russia”, in Newsweek‎^[5], retrieved 2022-07-25:

  Plenty of Belarusian exiles have gone to Europe, but if you run West, then the Orcs [a Ukrainian slang term for "Russian soldiers"] will just follow you there. It's better to risk your life as a free person than to keep running.