In my experience, people on the left have no use for Putin. He's an autocratic dictator. Certainly, the administration to kowtow to him was the Trump administration. Leftists haven't really been interested in Soviet or Russian politics as a positive thing since the days of Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, etc. A friend of my parents wrote an interesting book called The Shores of Bohemia about socialists and communists in the early to mid 20th century in NYC and Cape Cod. My grandparents were part of this community and it was interesting to learn about the political positions of people I knew as child. But no leftists I know (I know a few!) have any use for Putin at all. It's the conservatives these days that like him and want to give him a free pass to absorb Ukraine.