{"id":1431839,"date":"2026-08-25T15:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/over-85-of-ukrainians-support-democracy-even-during-war-poll\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:46:25","slug":"over-85-of-ukrainians-support-democracy-even-during-war-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/over-85-of-ukrainians-support-democracy-even-during-war-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 85% of Ukrainians support democracy even during war: poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

The vast majority of Ukrainians believe that the country should remain a democracy even during war. At the same time, over 80% of those surveyed do not feel they can influence state decisions and speak of a gap between the government and society.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is evidenced by the results<\/a> of a study by the Active Group company, conducted jointly with the Politarena publication using the online panel SunFlower Sociology.<\/p>\n

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85.6% of respondents support preserving the democratic system during the war. Of these, 57.3% answered “definitely yes”, another 28.2% – “probably yes”. 4.2% of those surveyed are against it. <\/p>\n

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At the same time, 82.9% of Ukrainians said that they do not feel that their vote has any influence on the state’s decisions. Only 12.9% believe that they can fully or partially influence the actions of the authorities. <\/p>\n

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Another 84.2% of respondents agreed with the statement that the state and society actually live separate lives.<\/p>\n

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In addition, 85.3% of respondents see a systemic crisis of public administration in Ukraine. At the same time, 68.9% believe that the system can be reformed already during the war, without waiting for its end.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainians named corruption as the main symptom of the management crisis – this was the answer of 35.4% of respondents. This is followed by the lack of responsibility for failures – 28.2% and problems with legislation – 23%. <\/p>\n

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Among the factors that most destroy trust between the state and citizens, 82.9% named corruption scandals. The work of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and mobilization were mentioned by 71.1%, personnel changes in power – by 58.9%, and the unfair distribution of the burden of war – by 54.9%.<\/p>\n

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At the same time, 91.5% of respondents fully or partially support public coverage of corruption cases against government officials even during war. <\/p>\n

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There have also been changes in attitudes towards elections. 43.3% of respondents consider holding elections during martial law to be appropriate, while 50.6% are against it. For comparison, in August 2023, only 15.7% supported elections during wartime.<\/p>\n

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Among the government bodies that Ukrainians would like to re-elect in the near future, the Verkhovna Rada is in first place – 71.1% support its re-election. 55.5% of respondents are in favor of re-election of the president.<\/p>\n

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In the presidential rating among all respondents, Volodymyr Zelensky took first place with 16.7%. He is followed by Valeriy Zaluzhny – 11.6%, Mykhailo Fedorov – 8.6%, and Petro Poroshenko – 8.3%.<\/p>\n

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At the same time, the simulation of the second round showed a different picture. Among those who have decided on a choice, Zelensky is inferior to Fedorov – 36.8% against 63.2%, and also to Zaluzhny – 40.1% against 59.9%. In the pair Zaluzhny – Fedorov, the result is 53% against 47% in favor of Zaluzhny. <\/p>\n

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The survey was conducted on August 22, 2026 among 2,000 adult citizens of Ukraine, excluding residents of temporarily occupied territories. The theoretical margin of error does not exceed 2.2%.<\/p>\n

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The vast majority of Ukrainians believe that the country should remain a democracy even during war. At the same time, over 80% of those surveyed do not feel they can influence state decisions and speak of a gap between the government and society. This is evidenced by the results of a study by the Active […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1431833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76878],"class_list":["post-1431839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1431833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}