Majority of Ukrainians believe country's leaders act in coordinated manner and there’s no split – survey

STANISLAV POHORILOV – MONDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2022, 12:46

71% of Ukrainians believe that the country's military and political leadership are acting in harmony, in line with the common objective, which is to achieve victory, a poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) indicates.

Source: Kyiv International Institute of Sociology survey conducted on 7-13 September

Details: At the same time, the survey shows that 14% of Ukrainians believe that there are "serious conflicts between the political and military leadership".

According to 24% of those surveyed, "Ukraine’s government does not pay due attention to [the needs of] Ukrainian soldiers." On the other hand, 60% of Ukrainians believe that the government "shows due attention to [the needs of] soldiers the best way it can".

Another 29% of respondents believe that officials profit from the war and swindle Western weapons. However, even in this case, there are significantly more people, namely 51% of respondents, who believe that Western-provided arms "are not stolen but used by the Ukrainian army".

During 7-13 September of 2022, KIIS conducted an Omnibus, the all-Ukrainian poll of public opinion.

The survey method was computer-assisted telephone interviews based on a random sample of mobile phone numbers.

2,000 respondents over the age of 18 living in all regions of Ukraine (except Crimea) were interviewed.

The sample did not include residents of territories that were not controlled by the authorities of Ukraine before 24 February, 2022, and citizens who left the country after 24 February of 2022 were not interviewed.

Formally, under normal circumstances, the margin error of such a sample was 2.4% for indicators close to 50%; 2.1% for indicators close to 25%; 1.5% for indicators close to 10%; and 1.1 % - for indicators close to 5%.

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