This paper aims to confront the position of Ukraine on world cognitive maps of European and Russian students obtained from a survey made in 2009-10 with strategic narratives of European Union and Russia of the same period in a high and low geopolitics confrontation perspective. Its objective is to check in which world region Ukraine is included by the students in a context of the Ukrainian crisis where officials from both side consider Ukraine either as a close partner European Union or a part of Russia. It appears that students from both regions strongly considered Ukraine a part of the European space that questions the efficiency of Russian strategic narratives.