Almost two-thirds of Ukrainians said they doubt that the fulfillment of the Minsk agreements will help bring peace to Donbas, a public opinion poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology on Sept. 17-27 shows.
According to the poll, 26.9 percent of the respondents believe the fulfillment of the Minsk agreements will help bring peace to Donbas, 60.7 percent do not believe in it and 12.3 percent were undecided.
A total of 0.7 percent of the respondents believe that the Minsk agreements are being fulfilled in full or virtually in full, 20 percent believe they are generally being fulfilled, 42.1 percent believe they are generally not being fulfilled and 28.8 percent believe they are not being fulfilled at all. A total of 8.3 percent of the respondents are undecided.
A total of 63.5 percent of the respondents agree with the allegation that “the Russian administration will not promote the full observance of the Minsk agreements,” and 17.4 percent disagree with it
A total of 19.5 percent of the respondents said they want the negotiations in the Normandy format (involving Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France) to continue; 33.6 percent said they believe there is a need to begin direct negotiations in a new format involving the U.S., the EU, some European countries (Germany, France, Poland) and Russia, and 20.8 percent of the respondents said there is a need to begin direct negotiations between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia without any international participants. A total of 11.7 percent of the respondents call for direct negotiations between the leaders of Ukraine and the self-proclaimed Donbas republics without international participants, and 13.4 percent were undecided.
The poll was conducted in all the regions of Ukraine. It surveyed 2,041 people older than 18.
