The specifics of intensive derivation and semantic transformations of speech during the formation of the Donetsk People's Republic as an example of the living process of the development of the modern Russian language

the events of recent years related to Ukraine's open military aggression against the residents of Donbass, which took place between 2014 and 2024, created a unique linguistic situation that reflected a creative rethinking of linguistic realities, as a result of which new word forms appear and the meanings of existing words change. The novelty of the work consists in fixing speech neoplasms, explaining their meanings, and compiling an explanatory dictionary of thematic neologisms (160 lexical units) that appeared in the Russian language in the Donetsk region over the 10 years from 2014 to 2024. and related to the military-political situation. All the collected words are missing from the Russian language tradition, but they are often used in a certain territory at a specific time period. The identified lexical units will either gain a foothold in the language or disappear altogether. It is possible to further study and systematize them, which will have a positive impact on the study of the linguistic picture on a historical scale. The material in this study may be useful to linguists, journalists, writers, and anyone interested in the history of language development.

intensive derivation, semantic transformations of speech, thematic neologisms, functions of speech thinking, cognitive factors, processes of neologization