The West or US doesn’t understand when Hitler invaded Ukraine on it’s way to Russia he was hail by the people and Russia watched in horror.
That's because Russia had already militarily occupied Ukraine and wanted it for itself.
Less than ten years earlier the Russians of the Soviet Union killed millions of Ukrainians and others in the Ukraine in what is now termed as the Holodomor genocide. Consequently, many Ukrainians were grateful to almost anyone no matter how nasty who would help them to avenge Ukrainians against the people who murdered millions of Ukranians by the artificial famine, political terrorism, and police state executions.