Our family’s from one of the most liberal cities in the country so our perception might be a little skewed. There are liberal friendly elements in the party and a noticeable number of them are embedded in education and smaller media too.

Not ruling out the amount of foreign trolls, they generally try to evoke nationalism with the “Russia invaded us before too, never forget” and drum up support for Ukraine and calling it a true “people’s war”. There are also those who have family in or from Ukraine (marriages or businesses) so they would more likely sway towards that way.

The internet is a very mixed bag too with many large platforms having a lot of pro-US/Japan users masquerading most of their ideology behind supporting ‘innocent Ukraine against imperialism’ while conveniently omitting info that happened in the past 8-9 years. Ukraine and the PRC had pretty amicable relations prior to the maidan and these people will present the puppet version of Ukraine today as the friendly one prior to 2014.

From some of our own circle of family and friends it usually ranges like this:

Born before 1940s, ML leaning - generally supports Russia/DPRK/Cuba/Syria/Palestine against imperialists. The ones in our family participated in supporting the DPRK in the 1950s so they tend to see the USSR more fondly despite the split in the 60s.

Born around 1950s-1970s - most old school liberals come from this generation, the nationalist types want Russia and the west to destroy each other, the liberals tend to worship the US version of events.

Born after 1980s - most from our circle are more apolitical so the usual view is sympathy for the people of Ukraine while also understanding Russia being backed into a corner.