cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/846586
Greece’s concern for its own security has made it a supporter of Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion. The country’s early support for Ukraine caused the Russian embassy in Athens to call on “very senior politicians” to “come to their senses” and “stop anti-Russian propaganda”.
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zacharova called Greece’s decision to send weapons to Ukraine “deeply mistaken” and “criminal”, warning that “in the end, the weapons will be turned on civilians, including the Greeks,” a reference to 150,000 ethnic Greek Ukrainians who then lived mainly in the besieged towns of Mariupol and Odesa.
According to Dianeosis, an Athens-based think tank, about 70 percent of Greeks had a favourable view of Russia before the full-blown war in Ukraine. That fell to 50 percent after the 2022 invasion and to 30 percent last year.
That is a special kind of speed run. I’m impressed 30% of Greeks still have a favorable view of Russia last year… I can’t imagine it is still that high. I really want to know the 2024 numbers, but only barely only half way through the year; still, I’d love to know current sentiment of not just Greece’s population, but worldwide, country by country, and how it’s progressed in the past decade (conveniently a decade since the Crimean invasion).