63% of Ukrainians are ready to endure the continuation of the war as long as necessary.
The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) reported this on November 4.
This is 10% less than in 2022 and 2023.
In September-October of this year, 6% of respondents noted that they were ready to endure the war for another year, 4% – for another six months, 15% – for several months.
Sociologists at KIIS point out that from the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022 until February 2024, the situation remained virtually unchanged.
Although there is an increase in uncertainty in the West and Center of Ukraine, the population of these regions remains highly confident in their capabilities (with minimal deterioration compared to February 2024).
However, in the South and East the dynamics are much more noticeable. In the South, from 71% to 57% there are fewer people who talk about a conditionally long period (1 year – as long as it will be needed), in particular, from 68% to 50% there are fewer people who talk about as long as it will be necessary .
At the same time, there is no significant increase in those who talk about a short period – 24% in February and 26% now. From 4% to 17% there were more people who had not decided on their opinion.
In the East (covering the Donetsk and Kharkov regions) in February, 73% spoke of a conditionally long period, and of these, 70% said “as long as needed.” Now it’s 48%, and 38% of them are ready to endure as long as necessary. The share of those who talk about a conditionally short period increased from 23% to 36%, and also from 5% to 16% there were more people who were undecided about their opinion.
KIIS conducted its survey on September 20-October 3, 2024. Sociologists used a method of telephone interviews (computer-assisted telephone interviews, CATI) based on a random sample of mobile phone numbers (with random generation of phone numbers and subsequent statistical weighting). People were interviewed in all regions except those temporarily occupied. 989 respondents were surveyed. The sample did not include people in the occupied territories and abroad.
Formally, under normal circumstances, the statistical error of such a sample (with a probability of 0.95 and taking into account the design effect of 1.3) did not exceed 4.1% for indicators close to 50%, 3.5% for indicators close to 25%, 2.5% – for indicators close to 10%, 1.8% – for indicators close to 5%.
Source: Racurs
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