Nearly half of Ukrainians – 47.2 percent – would vote for Ukraine’s accession to NATO, and 33.6 percent are against such accession, as is seen from a public opinion poll conducted by the SOCIS social and marketing survey center and the Rating sociological group.
The poll of 4,000 respondents conducted on Nov. 24 – Dec. 2, 2016 in all regions of Ukraine (except for Crimea and the parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions currently not controlled by Kyiv), whose findings were made public at the Interfax press center in Kyiv on Dec. 14, showed that 11 percent of those polled would not cast their ballots in such a referendum and 8.3 percent were undecided.
If a referendum on joining the European Union was held in Ukraine in the near future, 60.7 percent of those polled would vote for EU membership, 23.8 percent would vote against it, 9.2 percent would not cast their ballots, and 6.3 percent were undecided.
It had been reported earlier that the Rating group found in a poll conducted in September 2016 that 43 percent of Ukrainians supported the country’s accession to NATO. A similar poll conducted in September by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) showed that nearly 40 percent of Ukrainians were in favor of Ukraine’s NATO membership.
