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by kamov 922 days ago
That only happened in the first few weeks/months following the invasion, and since then people returned to calling them "Ruskie". The general consensus is that the name refers to the historical area of Ruthenia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthenia

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I no longer live there, but when I visit now, I often see the name "Kresowe" having replaced "Ruskie", Kresy being the name of a historical region around the Polish/Ukrainian border.
Kresowe is even less PC than ruskie, but people don't care it seems :)