Almost two-thirds of Ukrainians (65.1 percent) believe that the Minsk agreements and the adoption of the law on a special local government order in certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions have not helped achieve peace in Ukraine, according to a survey conducted by the Gorshenin Institute.
Some 20.7 percent believe that this helped establish peace in Donbas, and 14.3 percent were undecided.
Gorshenin Institute sociologist Liudmyla Chetvertukhina said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday, Oct. 22 that according to the survey, 54.2 percent of Ukrainians think that the conflict zone could be expanded outside Donetsk and Luhansk regions and Crimea. Of these, 18.9 percent describe such a scenario as very likely, and 35.3 percent see it as most likely.
As many as 31.8 percent of those polled do not think such a scenario is probable, and 7.1 percent of them believe it is completely not probable, and 24.7 percent think it is most likely not probable.
Most Ukrainians (54.4 percent) believe that one cannot be satisfied with peace in Ukraine in exchange for the transfer of Crimea and Donbas to Russia, 24.6 percent hold the opposite view, and 21.1 percent were undecided.
The survey was conducted from Oct. 12 to Oct. 21, 2014. A total of 2,000 respondents were interviewed. The poll’s margin of error is 2.2 percent.
