Will website with tag hreflang pass link juice to other country/language version of website?

[Kabanchik]

For example, I have a website XXX.com and I made hreflang tags to other country/language versions of website:

• ru.XXX.com (for Russia/Russian)
• XXX.com.ua (for Ukraine/Russian)
• ua.XXX.com (for Ukraine/Ukraine)

Then I will acquire links to XXX.com. The question is: will XXX.com pass link juice to websites ru.XXX.com, XXX.com.ua and ua.XXX.com. Will these websites rank in their countries if I will acquire links ONLY to XXX.com?

I looked at https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en, but haven't found what google think about that. Thank you in advance. I will appreciate your help.

[gfiorelli1]

I am not sure to have understood well your question...

If you earn links for xxx.com, the link equity of those links won't pass to the others sites if there is no link from xxx.com to those same sites (and the backlinks to xxx.com won't be part of their link profile, but only xxx.com).

Remember: a real link, not the one in the hreflang (which is not a link, it's an URL, by the way).

[Kabanchik]

Thank you for your answer.
So as I understand,

5 links to xxx.com will not affect the website ru.xxx.com even if they are connected via hreflang, correct?

Thank you very much

[gfiorelli1]

Correct.