Some 39.4% of Ukrainians surveyed believe that the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territories captured since February 24, 2022 can be considered a victory for Ukraine (a year ago this figure was 30.4%).

This is evidenced by the data of a survey presented at Interfax-Ukraine, conducted by the by the Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the National Academy of Pedagogic Science of Ukraine together with the Association of Political Psychologists of Ukraine on March 1-15, 2024.

"There have been changes in public attitude towards possible compromise options for peace. A year ago, 30.4% of respondents agreed, and almost 42% disagreed with the fact that the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territories captured since February 24, 2022 would be rightfully considered a victory for Ukraine, and the return of Crimea and part of Donbss should be achieved through further negotiations. Now the distribution of answers has changed almost mirror image: 39.4% of respondents agree with this understanding of victory, and 26.2% disagree," says the press release on the results of the study.

The survey was conducted using face-to-face interviews. Some 2,000 respondents aged 18 years and older were surveyed in Ukrainian-controlled territory. The sample represents the adult population of Ukraine. The sampling error is 3.2%.

The analysis of regional differences in public opinion is carried out on the basis of uniting the regions into four macro-regions: Western (Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, Chernivtsi regions); Central (Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Sumy, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy, Chernihiv regions, Kyiv); Eastern (Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Luhansk, Kharkiv regions); and Southern (Mykolaiv, Odesa, and Kherson regions).

The February 2022 monitoring data, with which the current survey results are compared, were obtained on the eve of a full-scale invasion.