Paul
Goble
Staunton, December 27 – Despite the suggestions
of some that Ukrainians might be better off if the Donbas were not part of
their country and the arguments of others that they will never fully recover
it, fewer than one Ukrainian in 50 – 1.8 percent – says Ukraine would be better
off to give that region up and only one in 14 – 7.3 percent – is prepared to
accept its loss.
More than half
of the sample across Ukraine – 54.3 percent – said it was categorically against
losing the Donbas, with another 27.1 percent indicating that they were more
inclined to oppose that than to accept it.
In the Ukrainian-controlled portions of the Donbas, the total in these
two categories was 72.6 percent, only slightly less than the all-Ukraine figure
of 81.4.
These are some of the findings of a
poll conducted December 4-19 of 3035 Ukrainians in 179 cities and towns of that
country, including in Ukrainian-controlled sections of the Donbas, by the Kyiv
International Institute of Sociology at the request of the ZN.UA news agency (nr2.com.ua/News/politics_and_society/Sociologi-Lish-18-ukraincev-gotovy-otkazatsya-ot-Donbassa-87462.html).
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