KIIS Poll: 75% Of Ukrainians Reject Russia's 'Peace Plan'

(MENAFN- UkrinForm) That is according to a survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), Ukrinform reports.

The latest version of Russia's "peace plan" is categorically rejected by 75% of Ukrainians. Seventeen percent of respondents said they were prepared to accept such a plan. However, if it were implemented, 65% would view it as Ukraine's defeat (and only 7% as a success), while 69% would expect Russia to attempt another invasion.

At the same time, 74% of Ukrainians (albeit without enthusiasm) are ready to support a European-Ukrainian peace plan, which envisages freezing the conflict along the current front line without any legal recognition of territorial losses, while providing Ukraine with security guarantees.

Only 30% of respondents would regard such a peace as Ukraine's success, while 18% would see it as a defeat (44% would view it as partly a success and partly a defeat). Even under this scenario, however, the majority (56%) would still expect Russia to attempt another offensive.

KIIS noted that under the conditional European-Ukrainian plan, Ukraine would receive reliable security guarantees from Europe and the United States, including sustained deliveries of weapons and financial aid in sufficient quantities, as well as protection of its airspace from Russian attacks. The current front line would be frozen, Russia would retain control over the occupied territories, but neither Ukraine nor the international community would recognize this officially. Ukraine would move forward on its path to EU membership. Sanctions against Russia would remain in place until a lasting peace is established and the threat of renewed aggression disappears.

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The conditional Russian plan, by contrast, envisions the U.S. and Europe lifting all sanctions against Russia. The Russian language would gain official status. Ukraine would be required to significantly reduce its army and limit its weapons. Ukraine would permanently renounce NATO membership, and the West would no longer be allowed to supply Ukraine with weapons. Russia would have the right to determine what security guarantees Ukraine could receive and would itself be one of Ukraine's security guarantors. Ukraine would withdraw its forces from parts of the Donetsk region currently under its control, including Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, and other cities. Ukraine would officially recognize Crimea, the Donetsk, and Luhansk regions as parts of Russia and renounce them forever. Russia would also retain control of the occupied areas of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.

The survey was conducted from September 2 to 14 among adult citizens of Ukraine (aged 18 and older) living in territories under government control at the time of the poll.

The poll's margin of error for the sample of 1,023 respondents (with a probability of 0.95 and taking into account a design effect of 1.3) does not exceed 4.1%.

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