Over 56 percent of Ukrainian citizens polled support Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, and more than 43 percent back the country’s joining NATO, according to the results of a survey that were presented at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Nov. 22.
According to the poll, 43.2 percent of respondents would have voted for Ukraine’s accession to NATO if the referendum took place in the near future. At the same time, 33.3 percent oppose Ukraine’s accession to NATO, 10.4 percent would not take part in such a referendum, and 13 percent were undecided.
Ukraine’s accession to the European Union would have been supported by 56.2 percent. Some 24.6 percent of respondents are against Ukraine’s accession to the EU, 9.6 percent would not participate in the referendum on accession to the EU, and the same percentage of respondents could not answer.
The survey was conducted by the Socis Center for Social and Marketing Research, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, the Rating Sociological Group and the Razumkov Center from Oct. 28 to Nov. 14. A total of 20,000 respondents were interviewed in all regions of Ukraine, except for Crimea and the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The poll’s margin of error does not exceed 0.7 percent.
