Ukrainians began to speak much more Ukrainian both at home and at home, as well as at work, study and searching for information on the Internet. Such data from a sociological survey of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology was published by a leading researcher at the Institute of Political and Ethnonational Studies named after. Kuras National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Volodymyr Kulyk. The survey was commissioned by him and compares a similar survey from 2017.

In particular, sociologists found a sharp increase in the proportion of respondents who speak mainly Ukrainian in everyday life, and a corresponding decrease in the proportion of Russian speakers in Ukraine.. In particular, in December 2022, 41% of respondents said that they communicate only in Ukrainian, another 17% prefer it in most situations.. At the same time, 6% speak only Russian, and 9% speak predominantly Russian.. Almost a quarter of respondents - 24% - say they use both languages \u200b\u200b"

Thus, compared to 2017, the share of Ukrainian speakers increased by 8%, while the share of Russian speakers decreased by 11%.. At the same time, there are now more Ukrainian-speakers even in the east and south - 29% against 27% of Russian-speakers.

When asked about the language of communication in the family, only 50% say that they communicate in Ukrainian, another 12% predominantly in Ukrainian, both languages \u200b\u200bequally - 19%, only or mainly in Russian - 16%, other languages \u200b\u200b- 2%. At the same time, in 2017, 25% of respondents spoke only or mainly Russian at home..

Also, Ukrainians began to communicate more in Ukrainian at work or school - 68% of them, while the share of Russian is 11%..

As for the language on the Internet, 26% of respondents use only Ukrainian and predominantly Ukrainian, 2% use only Russian, and 4% predominantly Russian.. 38% of respondents reported consistent use of both languages.

At the same time, the scientist notes that the use of the Internet differs from the two previous areas of language use, including the fact that it contains more other languages \u200b\u200bthan Ukrainian and Russian, primarily English.. This is especially evident among the richest and youngest respondents..

Sociologists also asked respondents about the importance of Ukrainian and Russian languages \u200b\u200bfor citizens. Compared to 2014, the share of people who consider the Russian language to be unimportant has increased from 9 to 58%.. At the same time, even 46% of southerners and residents of the east and 35% of people who themselves communicate mainly in Russian think so..

Of those who still consider the Russian language important, most respondents pointed to its role as "

At the same time, only 1% of respondents consider the Ukrainian language unimportant - 2% among residents of the East and 4% among Russian speakers..

In addition to language, respondents were also asked about their identity.. Thus, 95% said that they associate themselves with the Ukrainian nationality, less than 2% - Russian, 1% - both Ukrainian and Russian, and another 2% - to the other. In particular, as many as 90% associate themselves with Ukrainian nationality even in the south and east, while five years ago it was 64%.

At the same time, if in 2017 68% of respondents said that they simply inherited their nationality from their parents or one of their parents, then in 2022 only 48% said so. Instead, there has been a sharp increase in the number of those who admit that they chose nationality by country (from 24% to 36%) or by ratio (from 3% to 7%).

“This, of course, does not mean that now 87% or at least 74% of our compatriots will communicate mainly in Ukrainian, and certainly it will not prevail immediately in the east and south. But in more or less formal communication, the vast majority already understand the need to speak Ukrainian.

And this is precisely the biggest and most important change in the language situation, which, I suppose, was primarily caused by Russian bloody aggression, ”commented Vladimir Kulik on the study ordered by him..

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The survey was conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology on December 4-27, 2022 using the method of telephone interviews using a computer among 2005 respondents who at that time lived on the territory of Ukraine (within the limits controlled by the Ukrainian authorities until February 24, 2022). The maximum error of the survey results is 2.4%.