The only region in the world where the number of those who support Putin and his actions has remained higher than the number of non-supporters is sub-Saharan Africa, dependent on food from Russia. This is reported by the American Institute of Public Opinion Gallup..

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" Gallup polls in 137 countries show Russia's image has suffered worldwide since the start of the war in Ukraine. For the first time in Gallup's history of tracking global leader ratings, "

The study showed the following trends:.

Global disapproval of the leadership of Russia in the world. In 2022, across 137 countries and territories surveyed by Gallup, an average of 57% said they disapproved of Russia's leadership. A sharp increase in this indicator amounted to 38% compared to 2021.

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Approval of the Russian leadership fell from a median of 33% in 2021 to 21% in 2022. The fall reversed a steady rise in approval between 2014, when Russia first invaded Ukraine and occupied the Crimean peninsula, and 2020, when approval peaked at 34%..

The percentage of those who have no opinion about the leadership of Russia also reached a new low. At the start of the Gallup Global Leadership Survey, an average of 35% of countries polled said they did not know enough about Russia's leadership to rate it..

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Of 137 countries surveyed in 2022, the majority - 81 countries - disapproved of Russia's leadership. High-income, Western-oriented democracies tend to have the highest disapproval ratings, exceeding 90%. In particular, in the USA (93%), Canada (91%), in 10 European countries, including Poland, one of the most loyal allies of Ukraine in Europe - 95%. In Ukraine itself, the leadership of Russia in 2022 disapproved of 96%.

Disapproval of the Russian leadership increased by at least 10 percentage points in 84 countries and territories among those surveyed in both 2021 and 2022. The largest increase was in Lithuania, a NATO member and former Soviet republic, where disapproval rose from less than half - 44% - in 2021 to 91% in 2022.

Surges of disapproval of over 40 points also escalated in Taiwan (from 26% to 72%) and Romania (from 37% to 79%). In each of these cases, the war in Ukraine was the main reason for the opposition to the Russian leadership among many who had previously been ambivalent towards him.. The percentage of those who said they "

Latin American population at the regional level likely to shift towards Kremlin disapproval. Most leaders in the region tried to remain neutral on the conflict, only Costa Rica joined the sanctions regimes against Moscow, but residents of most Latin American countries were less ambivalent. In the region, the median disapproval of the Russian leadership increased from 31% in 2021 to 61% in 2022. Conversely, the median of approval dropped from 37% to 16%..

In sub-Saharan Africa, the slide towards disapproval of the Russian leadership has been less pronounced. Leaders in the region have tried to avoid alienating both sides of the conflict, with some calling for a mediated settlement of the fighting, as Senegalese President Macky Sall did at the UN General Assembly in September 2022..

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" The approval of the Russian leadership in the region has indeed fallen from a median of 45% in 2021 to 35% in 2022; however, Sub-Saharan Africa was the only region where the median disapproval, 32%, did not exceed the median approval last year,” notes Gallup.

Approval from the Russian leadership also plummeted for key ally Kazakhstan.

The big, oil-rich state of Central Asia has traditionally been closely tied to the Kremlin.. However, President Kasim-Jomart Tokayev joined Western sanctions against Russia and sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine.. Sentiment among the Kazakh people followed suit, with approval from the Russian leadership falling from 5% in 2021 to 29% in 2022, while disapproval rose from 20% to 50%,” the study says..

Recall that the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which allows Ukraine to export grain through ports in the Black Sea, is in a " In particular, the Russians violated the terms of the Black Sea Grain Initiative. And they decided to unilaterally change the plans of Ukrainian ports.

Russia seeks not to comply with the provisions of the agreement and has been deliberately slowing down the verification process for several months. In February, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said that Russia considers it " Last month, Russia said it would extend the agreement by just 60 days instead of the 120-day period envisaged by the agreements..