The majority of Ukrainians, namely 56%, believe that the main goal of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the complete destruction of the Ukrainian people.. Moreover, this opinion dominates in all regions of Ukraine, according to a sociological survey of the Rating group..

Another half of Ukrainians believe that the goal of the attack is the occupation of Ukraine and joining Russia, and only 15-17% believe that Russia is pursuing the goal of changing the political course of Ukraine or preventing the deployment of NATO bases. Also, 10% of citizens believe that the motive is the destruction of military infrastructure, and 5% point to provoking NATO to war as the main goal..

Those who believe that the Russian invasion was intended to protect the Russian speakers - only 2%.

Also, among the Ukrainians surveyed, they assess the likelihood that Russia will carry out a military attack on one of the European countries as high (25%) or medium (26%).

At the same time, only 22% generally reject such a possibility, these are, first of all, older people.

The fourth nationwide survey of Ukrainians during the war was conducted by the Rating sociological group on March 12-13 among 1200 respondents using the Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews method.. The survey was conducted in all regions, except for the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and Donbass. The error of the representativeness of the study with a confidence probability of 0.95: no more than 2.8%.