Some 77 percent of respondents polled by Seetarget believe that the most urgent problem for Ukraine is the military conflict in the eastern part of the country.
According to the survey conducted from July 26 through Aug. 17, 2018, half of the respondents believe that corruption and bribes are the main problem facing the country, one third of respondents pointed to the unemployment rate, 19 percent – low salaries and pensions, and 16 percent – not enough level of social protection.
Among the most important personal problems the respondents named low wages and pensions (52 percent of respondents), tariff hikes (49 percent), price hikes and inflation (45 percent). At the same time, a quarter of respondents are personally concerned about the war in the east, and the unemployment problem is a primary personal concern of 23 percent of respondents.
Ukrainians said that the biggest threats are economic collapse (60 percent), impoverishment of the population (55 percent), activation of hostilities in Donbas (49 percent), mass migration of Ukrainians abroad (47.5 percent) and the threat of a full-scale war with Russia (43 percent).
At the same time, respondents’ opinions on whether Ukraine can solve its problems on its own are divided: 45.4 percent of respondents answered that it can, while 42.3 percent said that Ukraine needs international support for this.
Also, almost 80% of respondents opposed the sale of farmland.
Ukrainians were markedly optimistic about relations between social groups in the country, with the overwhelming majority of respondents do not see any tensions between representatives of different generations, ethnic groups, residents of different regions and urban and rural residents. However, this optimism dropped off when asked about the relationship between socioeconomic groups. 71 percent of respondents believe that there is social tension between the rich and the poor in Ukraine, while 57 percent said there was social tension between managers and hired workers.
The poll was conducted using a face-to-face interview in 24 regions of Ukraine and Kyiv city (apart from the occupied areas of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions). A total of 2,627 respondents from 63 cities and 105 rural areas were polled. The survey’s margin of error is no more than 1.92 percent.
