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Ukrop (, ; literally "dill") is a Russian-language deriding term for Ukrainians. The term is a reference to the dill plant and bears a superficial syntactical similarity with the first half of the Russian word for Ukrainians. Putin unapologetic, uncompromising on war against Ukraine, Kyiv Post (December 18, 2014)
It was reappropriation as an ironic nickname by Ukrainian soldiers in 2014 during the war in Donbas, and a shoulder patch was designed by Andriy Yermolenko. The UKROP party reaches a settlement with the creator of their logo The ironic use lost popularity after it was adopted as the name of the Ukrainian political party UKROP.
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