Majority of Ukrainians support accession to NATO and EU – poll

21 June 2022, 14:57 | Policy 
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If a referendum on Ukraine's accession to the EU was held in the near future, 87% of Ukrainians would support European integration, according to the results of a survey by the Sociological Group " 4% of citizens would vote against membership in the European Union, 8% would not vote.

At the same time, 69% of respondents believe in joining the EU in the next five years, another 40% - within 1-2 years, 29% - in five years. At the same time, another 14% believe that Ukraine will become a member of the European Union in the next 5-10 years, 3% - in 10-20 years. Only 7% of citizens do not believe at all that Ukraine will become a member of the European Union.

As for the referendum on joining NATO, integration into the North Atlantic Alliance would be supported by 76% of respondents. 10% would vote against, 12% would not go to the referendum.

According to sociologists, in March 2022, 68% of Ukrainians supported joining NATO.. Unlike accession to the EU, NATO membership is more cautiously perceived by residents of the east of the country (55% - for accession, 20% - against, 22% would not come to vote).

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The survey was conducted on June 18-19 among the population of Ukraine aged 18 years and older in all regions, except for the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and Donbass, as well as territories where there is no Ukrainian mobile communication at the time of the survey. Results are weighted using up-to-date data from the State Statistics Service. The sample is representative by age, gender and type of settlement. In total, sociologists interviewed 1200 respondents using the CATI method (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews - telephone interviews using a computer). The error of the representativeness of the study with a confidence probability of 0.95: no more than 2.8%.

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