diff --git a/scripts/docs-i18n/doc_chunked_raw.go b/scripts/docs-i18n/doc_chunked_raw.go
index f20cdcb82ab3..96b7c2495fb7 100644
--- a/scripts/docs-i18n/doc_chunked_raw.go
+++ b/scripts/docs-i18n/doc_chunked_raw.go
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ func translateDocBodyChunked(ctx context.Context, translator docsTranslator, rel
 		out.WriteString(translated)
 	}
 	translatedBody := out.String()
+	translatedBody = normalizeMaskedListMarkerPlaceholders(translatedBody, mapping)
 	if err := validatePlaceholders(translatedBody, placeholders); err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s: restore fenced literals: %w", relPath, err)
 	}
diff --git a/scripts/docs-i18n/doc_mode_test.go b/scripts/docs-i18n/doc_mode_test.go
index 75f1f78c8209..1e4e8feed6f0 100644
--- a/scripts/docs-i18n/doc_mode_test.go
+++ b/scripts/docs-i18n/doc_mode_test.go
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ func (t *docSyntaxMaskingTranslator) Translate(_ context.Context, text, _, _ str
 func (t *docSyntaxMaskingTranslator) TranslateRaw(_ context.Context, text, _, _ string) (string, error) {
 	t.rawInputs = append(t.rawInputs, text)
 	translated := strings.ReplaceAll(text, "Visible prose", "Видимый текст")
-	translated = regexp.MustCompile(`(?m)^\s+(__OC_I18N_\d+__)`).ReplaceAllString(translated, "$1")
+	translated = regexp.MustCompile(`(?m)^(__OC_I18N_\d+__)`).ReplaceAllString(translated, "  $1")
 	return translated, nil
 }
 
@@ -733,6 +733,35 @@ func TestExtractMarkdownListMarkerPrefixesIgnoresFencedExamples(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestNormalizeMaskedListMarkerPlaceholdersRemovesAddedContainers(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	mapping := map[string]string{
+		"__OC_I18N_000001__": "- ",
+		"__OC_I18N_000002__": "  - ",
+		"__OC_I18N_000003__": "> 1. ",
+		"__OC_I18N_000004__": "`inline`",
+	}
+	translated := strings.Join([]string{
+		"  __OC_I18N_000001__Top level",
+		"> __OC_I18N_000002__Nested",
+		"  > __OC_I18N_000003__Quoted",
+		"  __OC_I18N_000004__ prose",
+		"",
+	}, "\n")
+	want := strings.Join([]string{
+		"__OC_I18N_000001__Top level",
+		"__OC_I18N_000002__Nested",
+		"__OC_I18N_000003__Quoted",
+		"  __OC_I18N_000004__ prose",
+		"",
+	}, "\n")
+
+	if got := normalizeMaskedListMarkerPlaceholders(translated, mapping); got != want {
+		t.Fatalf("normalized placeholders changed unexpectedly\nwant:\n%s\ngot:\n%s", want, got)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestValidateDocChunkTranslationRejectsTranslatedInlineCode(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
diff --git a/scripts/docs-i18n/masking.go b/scripts/docs-i18n/masking.go
index 5afba4c16d0f..e7ca457cc7c9 100644
--- a/scripts/docs-i18n/masking.go
+++ b/scripts/docs-i18n/masking.go
@@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ import (
 )
 
 var (
-	inlineCodeRe  = regexp.MustCompile("`[^`]+`")
-	angleLinkRe   = regexp.MustCompile(`<https?://[^>]+>`)
-	linkURLRe     = regexp.MustCompile(`\[[^\]]*\]\(([^)]+)\)`)
-	linkLabelRe   = regexp.MustCompile(`!?\[([^\]\r\n]+)\]\(([^)\r\n]+)\)`)
-	placeholderRe = regexp.MustCompile(`__OC_I18N_\d+__`)
-	listMarkerRe  = regexp.MustCompile(`^([ \t]*(?:>[ \t]*)*)([-+*]|[0-9]+[.)])([ \t]+)`)
+	inlineCodeRe          = regexp.MustCompile("`[^`]+`")
+	angleLinkRe           = regexp.MustCompile(`<https?://[^>]+>`)
+	linkURLRe             = regexp.MustCompile(`\[[^\]]*\]\(([^)]+)\)`)
+	linkLabelRe           = regexp.MustCompile(`!?\[([^\]\r\n]+)\]\(([^)\r\n]+)\)`)
+	placeholderRe         = regexp.MustCompile(`__OC_I18N_\d+__`)
+	listMarkerRe          = regexp.MustCompile(`^([ \t]*(?:>[ \t]*)*)([-+*]|[0-9]+[.)])([ \t]+)`)
+	listContainerPrefixRe = regexp.MustCompile(`^[ \t]*(?:>[ \t]*)*$`)
 	// Hard validation stays limited to low-ambiguity composite literals. Plain numbers remain
 	// model-visible so target-language plurals and ordinals can change grammar without false failures.
 	numericValueRe = regexp.MustCompile(`(?:0[xX][0-9A-Za-z_]+|0[bB][0-9A-Za-z_]+|0[oO][0-9A-Za-z_]+|[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?(?::[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?)+|[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?(?:/[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?)+|(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+)[eE][+-]?[0-9]+)`)
@@ -131,6 +132,24 @@ func extractMarkdownListMarkerPrefixes(text string) []string {
 	return prefixes
 }
 
+func normalizeMaskedListMarkerPlaceholders(text string, mapping map[string]string) string {
+	lines := strings.SplitAfter(text, "\n")
+	for index, line := range lines {
+		span := placeholderRe.FindStringIndex(line)
+		if span == nil || !listContainerPrefixRe.MatchString(line[:span[0]]) {
+			continue
+		}
+		placeholder := line[span[0]:span[1]]
+		original := mapping[placeholder]
+		markerSpan := listMarkerRe.FindStringIndex(original)
+		if markerSpan == nil || markerSpan[0] != 0 || markerSpan[1] != len(original) {
+			continue
+		}
+		lines[index] = line[span[0]:]
+	}
+	return strings.Join(lines, "")
+}
+
 func protectedMarkdownLinkRanges(text string) [][2]int {
 	ranges := make([][2]int, 0)
 	for _, match := range linkLabelRe.FindAllStringSubmatchIndex(text, -1) {