LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF WARTIME COMMUNICATION
Journal: Актуальні питання у сучасній науці
Year: 2025

The article explores the development of Ukrainian military slang as a linguistic and cultural phenomenon shaped by the Russian-Ukrainian war.The rapid militarization of the Ukrainian language since 2014, and especially after the full-scale invasion in 2022, has resulted in a significant enrichment of the national lexicon with new terms, code names, call signs, abbreviations, and slang expressions.The research demonstrates how military slang, once limited to professional communication within the