Ukrainians’ Attitudes to the US Peace Plan (2025)

Description

A nationwide representative survey was conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation in cooperation with the sociological service of the Razumkov Centre between 5 and 16 December 2025.

The survey includes questions assessing the acceptability of implementing four of the twenty-eight points of the peace agreement proposed by the United States to Ukraine. These include de facto recognition of the occupied territories as part of the Russian Federation, refusal to join NATO, reduction of the Ukrainian army to 600,000 troops, and the allocation of part of the frozen Russian assets to projects aimed at developing Russian–American relations. In addition, the survey covers attitudes towards Ukraine’s accession to NATO and the European Union, beliefs about Ukraine’s victory in the war, perceptions of the future, and a socio-demographic section.

Using face-to-face interviews, 2,000 respondents aged 18 and older were surveyed in Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, and Chernivtsi regions, as well as in the city of Kyiv. In Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions, the survey was conducted only in areas controlled by the Ukrainian government and not affected by active hostilities.

The survey employed a stratified multistage sample with random selection at the initial stages and a quota method at the final stage, with quotas based on gender and age. The sample structure reflects the demographic profile of the adult population in the surveyed territories as of early 2022, by age, gender, and type of settlement.

The theoretical sampling error does not exceed 2.3%.

This dataset contains the original survey data in SPSS (.sav) format, available in both Ukrainian and English. It has also been exported to an Excel file, with the contents of the corresponding XLSX file being identical to the original SAV file. The survey methodology and questionnaire are provided in the Documentation section (PDF files), in both English and Ukrainian. Comparisons for several questions with previous waves of the Democratic Initiatives Foundation survey are presented in the Results section (XLSX format).

Countries

Ukraine

Keywords

Negotiation Russo-Ukrainian War European Union Nato

Language of data

English Ukrainian

Disciplines

International Relations Political Science Sociology

Methods of data collection

Public Opinion Poll