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Russian anger builds as Greece prepares a military deal with Ukraine (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Russian anger builds

Boo hoo. Crimea River.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I see what you did there 😏

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

North Korea version 2, unpopular you say?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Russia's decision to invade Ukraine was "deeply mistaken"