May 3, 2022

Kyiv, Ukraine – “A squad of orcs has been repelled.”

This is not a reference to J R R Tolkien’s race of evil Lord Sauron supporters with bad breath and disfigured faces that appeared in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

This is a line from an official report from Ukraine’s defence ministry – and part of the ever-expanding wartime vocabulary used by top officials, military and media.

Read more:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/3/orcs-and-rashists-ukraines-new-language-of-war