About a half of Ukraine’s citizens tend to welcome the country’s accession to the European Union, and almost 40 percent have positive views of the country’s integration into NATO, according to a poll conducted by the Sociology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences with support from the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation (DIF).
According to the poll, the results of which were announced at a press conference in Kyiv on Dec. 21, almost half of Ukrainians (47.9 percent) tend to be positive about Ukraine’s accession to the EU. About a quarter (23.6 percent) tend to be negative about it, and 28.5 percent are undecided.
Some 39.6 percent tend to be positive about Ukraine’s accession to NATO, 29.8 percent tend to be negative about it, and 20.6 percent are undecided.
Only 22 percent of respondents said they welcome the idea of Ukraine forming a union with Russia and Belarus, 54.4 percent said they tend to be negative about it, and 23.6 percent were undecided.
The poll of 1,800 respondents was conducted in all of Ukraine’s regions on September 13-29.
