The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to enjoy the greatest confidence. In particular, over the past year, the level of confidence of Ukrainians in the Armed Forces has grown from 72% to 96%.. This is evidenced by the results of the KIIS survey..

The balance of trust-distrust in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (that is, the difference between the share of those who trust and the share of those who do not trust) is +96% (in December 2021, this figure was +60%).

This is followed by trust in the President of Ukraine and volunteers. In particular, in December 2021, 27% of respondents trusted the president (and the balance was negative -23%, that is, there were more distrustful). However, over the year this figure rose to 84%, and the balance is + 80%. The confidence of Ukrainians in volunteers increased from 68% to 84%, and the balance improved from +57% to +81%.

Sociologists also drew attention to a significant improvement in trust in two other law enforcement agencies: trust in the SBU increased from 29% to 63% (balance increased from -7% to +54%), and in the National Police - from 30% to 58% (balance.

In addition, the perception of the government and the Verkhovna Rada has significantly improved.. The trust of respondents in the government increased from 14% to 52% (balance increased from -46% to +33%). In the case of the parliament, despite the fact that overall confidence indicators are not high, pollsters will report a significant increase in the level of confidence: from 11% to 35%, and the balance increased from -56% to +2%.

This year, sociologists added two more structures to the list of structures that are more associated with ensuring the rule of law in the country - these are prosecutors and courts..

According to the survey, these are the only Ukrainian structures that have a negative trust-distrust balance and to which Ukrainians are most critical.

In particular, 25% of respondents trust the courts, 34% do not (the rest have no definite attitude) (the balance is -9%). And 21% of respondents trust prosecutors, 32% do not (the balance is -11%).

In 2021, there were no similar institutions in the survey list, so sociologists cannot speak directly about the dynamics. However, in 2018, in another KIIS survey, 12% of respondents said they had confidence in the judiciary, and 78. 5% - did not trust. According to sociologists, it is likely that there has also been an improvement in relation to courts and prosecutors compared to 2021, although Ukrainians still remain significant skepticism.

According to the results of the survey, confidence in the Ukrainian media has grown from 32% to 57% over the past year (the balance increased from -7% to +43%).

Respondents’ trust in the Russian media was absent before, but now this lack has become even more pronounced: the number of those who trust has decreased from 3% to 1%, and the balance has decreased from -76% to -92%.

There is also some deterioration in attitudes towards the church.. In particular, the share of those who trust the church decreased from 51% to 44%, and the balance decreased from +27% to +22%.

According to the results of the survey, Ukrainians began to trust ordinary people in their locality more - the trust indicator increased from 63% to 71%, and the balance improved from 52% to 62%.

Sociologists this year also asked respondents about their attitude towards migrants: only 52% of respondents trust them and only 10% do not trust them (the rest have an indefinite / indifferent attitude). The balance is 41%.

Dynamics of trust in social institutions, % trust.

Dynamics of trust in social institutions, % trust-distrust balance.

According to sociologists, the growing confidence of Ukrainians in the political leadership and law enforcement agencies in times of war is another evidence of unity in critical circumstances, since social cohesion is one of the key factors for successful resistance to the enemy..

“It is important that Ukrainians have more confidence not only in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but also in the SBU and the National Police, which perform very important functions.. It is important not only to improve the attitude towards the president, but also to improve the perception of the government and parliament, since these institutions play an important role in the processes of organizing the life of the country in war conditions, and are also responsible for reforming the country according to European standards,” the KIIS said, while.

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The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) conducted its own all-Ukrainian public opinion poll " The survey was conducted with adult (aged 18 years and older) citizens of Ukraine who at the time of the survey were residing on the territory of Ukraine, within the limits controlled by the Ukrainian authorities until February 24, 2022. The sample did not include residents of territories that were temporarily not controlled by the authorities until February 24, 2022, in particular, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea,. Sevastopol, separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Also, the survey was not conducted with citizens who went abroad after February 24, 2022.

Formally, under normal circumstances, the statistical error of such a sample (with a probability of 0.95 and taking into account the design effect of 1.1) did not exceed 3.4% for indicators close to 50%, 3.0% for indicators close to 25%,.

Sociologists also note that in war conditions, in addition to the indicated formal error, a certain systematic deviation is added. At the same time, they believe that the results obtained still retain a high representativeness and allow a fairly reliable analysis of the public mood of the population..