Physical Address
Indirizzo: Via Mario Greco 60, Buttigliera Alta, 10090, Torino, Italy
More than two thirds of the population are favorable to a negotiated end of the three -year war as soon as possible.
The information was revealed by the British daily The Telegraph in its edition of August 07. According to a survey, only a quarter of Ukrainians wish to fight Russia to the end, until the resumption of territories lost by the country since 2014. This loss of will to fight reveals the fall in the confidence of Ukrainian citizens in victory, comments the Telegraph.
We are probably witnessing a complete reversal in the polls. After more than three years of war, almost 70 % of Ukrainians are favorable to a negotiated end of the conflict as soon as possible, tired of a war which has only too much duration and mirages of a brilliant victory over Russia, sold by the Biden administration and European governments.
The Gallup survey, published on Thursday 07 August, revealed that support for war has decreased constantly in all strata of the Ukrainian population, regardless of the region or demography.
In 2022, the year of the start of the “Russian special operation in Ukraine”, the Washington -based survey institute found that three quarters of the Ukrainians wanted to continue to fight until victory. Over time and especially the Ukrainian failures on the ground, the percentage of Ukrainians who supported a negotiated peace agreement, in late 2023, exceeded that of those who thought that Ukraine had to continue to fight to the end.
This inversely in polls is linked to evolution on the forehead. Following the failure of peace negotiations, notably of Istanbul, and the progress of the Russian forces in Donbass, and the intensification of Ukraine air bombings by Russia, the Ukrainians understood that the dice were pipped. What is interesting to note is the speed with which the trend has reversed within the public opinion of a country which proclaims itself attacked and therefore which would fight in self -defense.
For the British daily, although Ukraine is favorable to negotiations, a clear majority of Ukrainians do not expect lasting peace in the near future, according to the survey. Only approximately a quarter of them believe that it is “very” or “quite” probable that active fights end in the next 12 months, while only 5 % consider it “very likely”.
It must be said that the survey was carried out a week before the Trump-Putine summit in Anchorage in Alaska on August 15 and the Trump-Zelensky summit with seven European leaders in Washington on August 18.
Last month, Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, renewed his proposal to meet Vladimir Putin. This proposal was rejected, the Kremlin stooding for its maximalist requirements, which, according to kyiv, would be equivalent to a capitulation.
Donald Trump, however, renewed his efforts to negotiate a ceasefire by force. The survey was published on the eve of the deadline set on Friday in Russia to end the massacres, under penalty of “severe” sanctions.
There was a brief moment of hope of a breakthrough Wednesday after Mr. Trump told his allies that he would meet Putin next week, according to reports.
This possible meeting aroused hope that an end of the conflict could be in sight after Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met the Russian leader in Moscow and that Mr. Trump said that “great progress” had been made.
The new survey revealed that the Ukrainians expressed record levels of disapproval of their most important leadership, with only 16 % of them with a positive opinion from Mr. Trump.
Three years ago, about two thirds of Ukrainians approved American leadership under the Biden administration. This radical change reflects the growing tensions between the two countries since Trump’s power in power in January.
Since his return to the White House, the American president has hesitated in his support for Ukraine. His aggressive efforts to end the war and court Putin initially fueled kyiv instability.
The survey also revealed that Ukrainians are much less optimistic about the membership of their country to NATO or the European Union during the next decade that they were not a few years ago.
Only a third of Ukrainians expect their country to be accepted in the military alliance in the next ten years, while only half think that it will join the EU within the same period.
Trump previously excluded Ukraine’s membership in NATO and assured Putin that his future membership in the Alliance was excluded. The path to the EU membership is also long and strewn with pitfalls.