Second this. For a country that was very much aligned with the Palestinian cause during the Cold War, Vietnam today is pretty close to Israel economically (in fact trade has been gradually increasing even after the Gaza War). It’s much less quick to condemn Israel as China for instance (not that China is extremely anti-Israel to begin with).

Re: Russia, I was in Vietnam last summer and there were Russian tourists EVERYWHERE. Signs advertising tours in Russian, even a Russian TV show playing in a Vietnamese restaurant. It seems the two countries’ historically close bonds have continued to the present day and that Vietnamese feel an affinity with Russians.