It is commonly believed that Ukraine's allies are primarily located in the ‘Global North’ (or as Russian propaganda calls it, the ‘collective West’), while countries in the ‘Global South’, which includes those in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, sympathise with Russia or remain neutral. On closer inspection, however, it becomes evident that this is not actually the case.

In an article published in June 2022, Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard indicated that, despite the support of Ukraine and condemn the Russian aggression, the dominant in Europe, European public opinion was divided in ideas about how the war should end, the camp of supporters of the world (that is, the speedy end of the war, even at the cost of the concessions of Russia) and the camp of supporters of justice (that is, of the unconditional recovery (that is, the unconditional recovery territorial

According to popular belief, Ukraine’s allies are mainly the countries of the “global North”, or, in the terminology of Russian propaganda, the “collective West”. While the “global South,” which includes Asia, Africa and Latin America, either sympathizes with Russia or remains neutral. A closer analysis shows that this is not actually the case. The pro-Ukrainian camp of the global South comprises two-thirds of its countries, home to a third of its population.