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Once upon a time, during his election campaign, he promised to “end the war in 24 hours”, but did not approach this purpose even in 24 weeks.
In the first 7 months of the second presidency, Trump was able to publicly quarrel with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, call him a dictator with 4% supportblock the Armed Forces access to intelligence and supplies of weapons and make a lot of attempts to press the victim of aggression, not the aggressor.
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So little strange is that it is very cold in Ukraine to say indignant, to meet the idea of the American President Take on Alaska isolated from the world of a mass killer and in combination of Russian ruler Vladimir Putin.
On August 15, despite skepticism, Trump glorified a red carpet in front of the Russian dictator, which for Ukrainians and European leaders turned into another “red line”, which the American leader cannot be allowed to come.
Therefore, on August 18 instantly Organized coalition From Zelensky and European leaders was in Washington and tried not to let Trump leave the side of light.
According to the results of this summit, the White House reported that a bilateral meeting of the leaders of Ukraine and the Russian Federation was being prepared, and after it a Tripartite Forum with the participation of the US President.
From Western diplomats in the press, the phrases were shown that “diplomatic decisions are closer than ever.” Even more in the US and European media, there were attempts to manipulate all kinds of the moods of Ukrainian society, the “desire for peace” and “fatigue from war.”
In the end, it is from such manipulations that the question raised by Zelensky in the White House is one of the journalists. How long he, Zelensky, still wants to “send soldiers to death” while the people, they say, “wants negotiations about peace.”
Such flashy manipulativeness of many statements in the sensitivity of the topic prompted the “Ukrainian truth” to understand whether Ukrainians actually support negotiations, whether Ukrainian society trusts their participants, and whether President Zelensky is preserved with a sufficient level of support for the results of negotiations to be perceived in Ukraine.
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Do Ukrainians want to talk about peace On August 7, a week before Trump and Putin’s meeting on Alaska, an influential American Institute of Gellap published a rather spreading sociological survey on moods in Ukraine.
Among other things, the “major change” was: at the initial stage of the Russian invasion in 2022, more than 70% of Ukrainians preferred to fight for a complete victory, and as of August 2025, almost 70% are leaving the idea of the fastest end of war through negotiations.
Here and then the author Andrei Kalistratenko, UPSocis sociological center published quite similar data in Ukraine in June. According to his survey, the continuation of the war to achieve certain goals (the border of 2022 or 1991) supported a little more than 20%, freezing or the beginning of international negotiations-the same approximately 70% of those polled.
However, the interpretation of American sociologists, and even more media and politicians, was not very correct. According to Anton Hrushetsky, the Executive Director of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in the UP, the answer to the question of the desire of negotiations cannot be taken separately from a few more questions.
“I personally saw when Gellap’s data was presented as the readiness of Ukrainians for peace on all conditions. But the situation is much more complicated. Certainly, if you ask any normal person as better to end the war, she would say that by negotiations. It is normal.
But it is right to ask the questions what concessions are ready for Ukrainians? And here the situation is quite different, “ – explains the sociologist.
According to him, since 2023, after the not very successful completion of the phase of the Ukrainian counter -offensive, there was a change of public moods to the direction, to put it bluntly, to accept new realities.
“But without moving to the option that we are ready for any conditions to complete the war. In 2023, only 10% were ready for territorial concessions. Now about 40% of Ukrainians consider any such option. But here the situation is more difficult”, “ – tells Hrushetsky of KIS.
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What kind of concessions do we talk about? If the transfer of the territories now controlled by Ukraine or the official recognition of the occupied territories in part of Russia, then the vast majority – 70-80% of Ukrainians – oppose such options “, – explains the sociologist.
The SOCIS survey also also had questions about possible concessions, and with an open question with the possibility of several response options, about 30% of those surveyed were against any concessions of Russia.
Almost 7% are ready for reduction of the army, only 16.5% – for territorial concessions, 21% – to refuse to enter the European Union.
Most often, the interviewees were ready to refuse to enter NATO – more than 36%.
But this figure must be properly interpreted: Ukrainians “sacrificed” what they least believe in. The above survey of the Gellap Institute has shown that in Ukraine the number of those who believe in the opportunity to join NATO over the next 10 years have fallen in Ukraine – now only 32%are now. Instead, 33% do not believe in the possibility of entry at all.
For comparison, Ukrainians believe in the possibility of rapid entry into the EU – 52% see the opportunity for the next 10 years, another 16% believe that this will take from 10 to 20 years.
Questions of concessions are closely related to another aspect of negotiations – security guarantees.
“If someone wants to receive a peaceful plan, with different points in the spirit of temporary occupation of the territories, then anything is possible with reliable security guarantees that will be replaced by this. Only in such a scenario, more than 50% of those surveyed can accept a certain” peace plan “. If there is no reliable safety guarantee in this regard, – says UP Anton Hrushetsky.
To sum up, we can say that Western sociologists have properly observed the readiness of Ukrainian society for the diplomatic format of the end of the war. However, it is possible only if there are no unreasonable concessions to the aggressor and there are reliable security guarantees from partners.
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Who allies of Ukraine in peace Three and a half years of a full -scale war left no doubt who is the enemy for Ukraine. But here are the issues of allies whose security guarantees can become one of the key fact The eagles of the end of this war and the prevention of a new, not so unambiguous.
The Gellap survey clearly showed that the most dramatic change was attributed to the United States.
If at the beginning of the invasion in 2022 the level of approval of Washinton’s actions in Ukraine reached 66%, then with the cadence of Donald Trump he collapsed up to 16%. 73% of Ukrainians do not support the area of activity that has chosen a new US leadership.
In many respects, such distrust is caused by the skepticism of Ukrainians about the opportunity to reach a sustainable peace in Ukraine through negotiations with Putin.
For example, according to a Gradus survey conducted on the eve of Alaska meeting, only 25% of those polled believed that it could give a sustained peace. In the possibility of at least a short -term ceasefire believed 50%.
However, after a very rigid landing in the relations of Kyiv and Washington, after a scandal in the oval office, a gradual trend is still observed.
According to the August CIME survey, more and more Ukrainians are beginning to return to the opinion that the states are working to ensure that the war ended on acceptable conditions for Ukraine.
First, despite the hundreds of scandalous “insides” in the Western media and the laid red carriers for Putin, Trump did not give Ukraine in principle.
Secondly, most Ukrainians are aware of the fact that it is on the States and the Trump team that a major role in finding a decision to end the war.
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According to the data of the Gellap Institute, despite the sharp disapproval of the US leader, 70% of Ukrainians believe that Washington should play a significant role in resolving the conflict.
At the same time, Ukrainians would also like involvement on their side in the negotiation process of EU countries (75%) and the United Kingdom (71%).
That is why the format of Washington meeting Trump – Zelensky – EU leaders – the older can be considered the most desirable for Ukrainians. It is this set of countries and institutions that Ukrainians trust the most, and they would like their security guarantees.
The latest unprocessed factor, critical for the legitimization of the results of any negotiation in Ukraine, is the support of the Ukrainian President itself within the country.
At the beginning of the year after a large quarrel in the White House, the level of public approval of Zelensky made a certain jerk up. All subsequent months, sociologists observed a slow and smooth fall of this indicator. Until July 22, the authorities had a reckless attack on anti -corruption bodies.
After a wave of protests and a major international scandal, the internal support of Zelensky was noticeably shaken. But it should not prevent him from representing Ukraine in peace talks, if they come to them.
“There is a stable trend that when the President’s activity is evaluated in the context of international policy, it is perceived better than in the context of domestic policy.
We saw in July that the formal majority of the population trust the president. And it can be said that the rhetoric of the President is synchronized with the results of the surveys (regarding “red lines” – UP). And this causes a positive perception among the public, ” – explains in a conversation with the UP Anton Hrushetsky of KIIS.
“In addition, the faith in negotiations adds the same presence of European partners. Therefore, the President has trust, but with the calculation that there are” red lines “that will not be crossed,” the sociologist adds.
Roman Romanyuk, UP
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Once upon a time, during his election campaign, he promised to “end the war in 24 hours”, but did not approach this purpose even in 24 weeks.
In the first 7 months of the second presidency, Trump was able to publicly quarrel with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, call him a dictator with 4% supportblock the Armed Forces access to intelligence and supplies of weapons and make a lot of attempts to press the victim of aggression, not the aggressor.
Advertising:
So little strange is that it is very cold in Ukraine to say indignant, to meet the idea of the American President Take on Alaska isolated from the world of a mass killer and in combination of Russian ruler Vladimir Putin.
On August 15, despite skepticism, Trump glorified a red carpet in front of the Russian dictator, which for Ukrainians and European leaders turned into another “red line”, which the American leader cannot be allowed to come.
Therefore, on August 18 instantly Organized coalition From Zelensky and European leaders was in Washington and tried not to let Trump leave the side of light.
According to the results of this summit, the White House reported that a bilateral meeting of the leaders of Ukraine and the Russian Federation was being prepared, and after it a Tripartite Forum with the participation of the US President.
From Western diplomats in the press, the phrases were shown that “diplomatic decisions are closer than ever.” Even more in the US and European media, there were attempts to manipulate all kinds of the moods of Ukrainian society, the “desire for peace” and “fatigue from war.”
In the end, it is from such manipulations that the question raised by Zelensky in the White House is one of the journalists. How long he, Zelensky, still wants to “send soldiers to death” while the people, they say, “wants negotiations about peace.”
Such flashy manipulativeness of many statements in the sensitivity of the topic prompted the “Ukrainian truth” to understand whether Ukrainians actually support negotiations, whether Ukrainian society trusts their participants, and whether President Zelensky is preserved with a sufficient level of support for the results of negotiations to be perceived in Ukraine.
But we believe that quality content should be accessible to everyone, so we will not impose restrictions on the last. Support us so that we can continue to continue working without restrictions – join the UP club!
Learn more
Do Ukrainians want to talk about peace On August 7, a week before Trump and Putin’s meeting on Alaska, an influential American Institute of Gellap published a rather spreading sociological survey on moods in Ukraine.
Among other things, the “major change” was: at the initial stage of the Russian invasion in 2022, more than 70% of Ukrainians preferred to fight for a complete victory, and as of August 2025, almost 70% are leaving the idea of the fastest end of war through negotiations.
Here and then the author Andrei Kalistratenko, UPSocis sociological center published quite similar data in Ukraine in June. According to his survey, the continuation of the war to achieve certain goals (the border of 2022 or 1991) supported a little more than 20%, freezing or the beginning of international negotiations-the same approximately 70% of those polled.
However, the interpretation of American sociologists, and even more media and politicians, was not very correct. According to Anton Hrushetsky, the Executive Director of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in the UP, the answer to the question of the desire of negotiations cannot be taken separately from a few more questions.
“I personally saw when Gellap’s data was presented as the readiness of Ukrainians for peace on all conditions. But the situation is much more complicated. Certainly, if you ask any normal person as better to end the war, she would say that by negotiations. It is normal.
But it is right to ask the questions what concessions are ready for Ukrainians? And here the situation is quite different, “ – explains the sociologist.
According to him, since 2023, after the not very successful completion of the phase of the Ukrainian counter -offensive, there was a change of public moods to the direction, to put it bluntly, to accept new realities.
“But without moving to the option that we are ready for any conditions to complete the war. In 2023, only 10% were ready for territorial concessions. Now about 40% of Ukrainians consider any such option. But here the situation is more difficult”, “ – tells Hrushetsky of KIS.
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What kind of concessions do we talk about? If the transfer of the territories now controlled by Ukraine or the official recognition of the occupied territories in part of Russia, then the vast majority – 70-80% of Ukrainians – oppose such options “, – explains the sociologist.
The SOCIS survey also also had questions about possible concessions, and with an open question with the possibility of several response options, about 30% of those surveyed were against any concessions of Russia.
Almost 7% are ready for reduction of the army, only 16.5% – for territorial concessions, 21% – to refuse to enter the European Union.
Most often, the interviewees were ready to refuse to enter NATO – more than 36%.
But this figure must be properly interpreted: Ukrainians “sacrificed” what they least believe in. The above survey of the Gellap Institute has shown that in Ukraine the number of those who believe in the opportunity to join NATO over the next 10 years have fallen in Ukraine – now only 32%are now. Instead, 33% do not believe in the possibility of entry at all.
For comparison, Ukrainians believe in the possibility of rapid entry into the EU – 52% see the opportunity for the next 10 years, another 16% believe that this will take from 10 to 20 years.
Questions of concessions are closely related to another aspect of negotiations – security guarantees.
“If someone wants to receive a peaceful plan, with different points in the spirit of temporary occupation of the territories, then anything is possible with reliable security guarantees that will be replaced by this. Only in such a scenario, more than 50% of those surveyed can accept a certain” peace plan “. If there is no reliable safety guarantee in this regard, – says UP Anton Hrushetsky.
To sum up, we can say that Western sociologists have properly observed the readiness of Ukrainian society for the diplomatic format of the end of the war. However, it is possible only if there are no unreasonable concessions to the aggressor and there are reliable security guarantees from partners.
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Who allies of Ukraine in peace Three and a half years of a full -scale war left no doubt who is the enemy for Ukraine. But the issues of allies whose security guarantees can be one of the key factors of completion of this war and preventing a new one is not so unambiguous.
The Gellap survey clearly showed that the most dramatic change was attributed to the United States.
If at the beginning of the invasion in 2022 the level of approval of Washinton’s actions in Ukraine reached 66%, then with the cadence of Donald Trump he collapsed up to 16%. 73% of Ukrainians do not support the area of activity that has chosen a new US leadership.
In many respects, such distrust is caused by the skepticism of Ukrainians about the opportunity to reach a sustainable peace in Ukraine through negotiations with Putin.
For example, according to a Gradus survey conducted on the eve of Alaska meeting, only 25% of those polled believed that it could give a sustained peace. In the possibility of at least a short -term ceasefire believed 50%.
However, after a very rigid landing in the relations of Kyiv and Washington, after a scandal in the oval office, a gradual trend is still observed.
According to the August CIME survey, more and more Ukrainians are beginning to return to the opinion that the states are working to ensure that the war ended on acceptable conditions for Ukraine.
First, despite the hundreds of scandalous “insides” in the Western media and the laid red carriers for Putin, Trump did not give Ukraine in principle.
Secondly, most Ukrainians are aware of the fact that it is on the States and the Trump team that a major role in finding a decision to end the war.
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According to the data of the Gellap Institute, despite the sharp disapproval of the US leader, 70% of Ukrainians believe that Washington should play a significant role in resolving the conflict.
At the same time, Ukrainians would also like involvement on their side in the negotiation process of EU countries (75%) and the United Kingdom (71%).
That is why the format of Washington meeting Trump – Zelensky – EU leaders – the older can be considered the most desirable for Ukrainians. It is this set of countries and institutions that Ukrainians trust the most, and they would like their security guarantees.
The latest unprocessed factor, critical for the legitimization of the results of any negotiation in Ukraine, is the support of the Ukrainian President itself within the country.
At the beginning of the year after a large quarrel in the White House, the level of public approval of Zelensky made a certain jerk up. All subsequent months, sociologists observed a slow and smooth fall of this indicator. Until July 22, the authorities had a reckless attack on anti -corruption bodies.
After a wave of protests and a major international scandal, the internal support of Zelensky was noticeably shaken. But it should not prevent him from representing Ukraine in peace talks, if they come to them.
“There is a stable trend that when the President’s activity is evaluated in the context of international policy, it is perceived better than in the context of domestic policy.
We saw in July that the formal majority of the population trust the president. And it can be said that the rhetoric of the President is synchronized with the results of the surveys (regarding “red lines” – UP). And this causes a positive perception among the public, ” – explains in a conversation with the UP Anton Hrushetsky of KIIS.
“In addition, the faith in negotiations adds the same presence of European partners. Therefore, the President has trust, but with the calculation that there are” red lines “that will not be crossed,” the sociologist adds.
Roman Romanyuk, UP