The overwhelming majority of Ukrainian Citizens (57%) believe that a special operation of the Ukrainian security forces in the East of the country should immediately stop and seek compromise, informs " " referring to the results of research conducted by the Ukrainian Institute for social research, together with the Center " Social monitoring ".

thirty percent of the respondents supported the continuation of hostilities, and one in ten respondents were undecided, the magazine writes.

Thus, the closer the area people to the area of conflict, the more confident they are in favour of its termination. So, against special operations security forces are 70% of the citizens related to the Donbass areas and 77% of the citizens of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Approve the continuation of hostilities in the West of Ukraine and in Kiev, but even there the percentage of people that do not support special operation, high enough, says the Chairman of the Ukrainian Institute for social research Olga Balakireva, which cites " mirror of the week ".

the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians believe that the conflict becomes protracted, 60% sure that it will last not more than six months, and only 7% are afraid that the fighting will last for several years, informs journal.

While the majority of respondents are confident that the conflict will remain local.


Kyiv authorities since April of conduct in the East of Ukraine military operation directed against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat citizens of Donbass. According to the latest information from the UN, from mid April to Ukraine forcibly deprived of life, more than 2 and a half thousand civilians, about six thousand wounded.

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