«Belief in victory is still above 90%» — Michael Druckman about surveys of Ukrainian’s public opinion

The resident program director for Ukraine at the International Republican Institute Michael Druckman says, that belief in Ukrainian victory, even one year on [of a full-scale invasion], is still above 90 percent.

He says about this during the interview for podcast Ukraine Calling on Hromadske Radio.

«I think, we can say, looking at some of the data from at least IRI’s three wartime surveys, is that the percentage of those Ukrainians, who say that Ukraine will win, has not gone down. So, this belief in victory, even one year on, is still above 90 percent. When we ask about potential options for negotiations to end the war, the return of Ukraine’s all of its territory, going back to 1991 borders, that number was over 50 percent in April 2022. That’s now over 70 percent as of this spring», — Mr. Druckman says.

Read the full conversation: Euro integration, confidence in local government and other surprises of public opinion survey in Ukraine

«So, we’re seeing a hardening of Ukraine’s position on «they want it all back now». The options for everything but Crimea, everything but the temporarily occupied Donbas, or let’s just go back to the line of February 24, those numbers have actually decreased, so Ukrainian public opinion has really hardened on this issue. We don’t see any sort of measurements that would allow us to know how long that will last, we just know that 16 months on, that resolve has not diminished at all», — he adds.

You may also read the previous conversation: Even during the all-out war, reforms in Ukraine are continuing — Michael Druckman