Arab reactions towards Russo-Ukrainian war

Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze the Arab peoples reactions and attitudes towards Russo-Ukraine War through social media posted tweets, as a fast means express opinions. We scrapped over 3 million tweets using some keywords that are related war performed sentiment, emotion, partiality analyses. For sentiment analysis, we employed voting technique several pre-trained Arabic language foundational models. emotion utilized pre-constructed lexicon. analyzed classifying being ‘Pro-Russia’, ‘Pro-Ukraine’, or ‘Neither’; it indicates bias empathy either conflicting parties. This was achieved by constructing weighted lexicon n-grams side. found majority carried ‘Negative’ sentiment. Emotions were not obvious with lot carrying ‘Mixed Feelings’. more decisive conveyed ‘Joy’ ‘Anger’ emotions. may be attributed celebrating victory (‘Joy’) complaining from destruction (‘Anger’). Finally, for amount classified ‘Pro-Ukraine’ slightly greater than Pro-Russia’ at beginning (specifically Feb 2022 till April 2022) then slowly began decrease until they nearly converged start June shift happening in Russia August 2022. Our Interpretation initial Russian fierce surprise attack refugees who escaped neighboring countries, Ukraine gained much empathy. However, 2022, intensity has been decreased heavy sanctions U.S. West have applied on Russia, begun gain such Ukrainian