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Ukraine's National Corruption Prevention Agency added major food corporations PepsiCo and Mars to the "international sponsors of war" list on Sept. 1.

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[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI: the "the" before Ukraine is superfluous. You can just type "like Ukraine just accused you of."

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Latecoere@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago

That's the proper name of it. The Ukraine isn't the proper name of Ukraine.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] lud@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about:

  • the England
  • the Germany
  • the France
  • the Sweden
  • the Russia
  • the Poland

Normal country names don't begin with "the"

"The United States of America" makes grammatical sense. "The Ukraine" or any of the above doesn't .

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I was being facetious

[–] Cube6392 8 points 1 year ago

The name of Ukraine is Ukraine. "The Ukraine" was a USSR administrative district. The name of The United States is The United States