The majority of Ukrainians do not believe that Ukraine should surrender in a full-scale war with Russia - this is evidenced by a survey that cites the Munich Security Index-2023.
The survey conducted by Kekst CNC in November of last year was cited in the report of the Munich Security Conference, "Spotlight Ukraine".
“Surprisingly, only 6% of Ukrainians feel unprepared to face a Russian invasion, and even during a winter marked by blackouts and power shortages, they feel more prepared to risk power outages than the public of any G7 country. Ukraine's western orientation is also clear," says the comment to the survey.
In particular, 63% of respondents said they would like to live in a world where the European Union shaped the international order, and another 22% by the United States.
The report also contains respondents' answers to whether Ukraine should continue to defend itself in the event of Russia's use of nuclear weapons. The authors of the study cited several scenarios and answers to them:
- "usual conventional" bombing of Ukrainian cities: 95% chose to "continue the fight", 3% - to "surrender", 2% refused to answer
- the use of tactical nuclear weapons by Russia over the Black Sea: 91% - "continue the fight", 4% - "surrender", the same number did not answer
- the use of the nuclear weapon on the battlefield: 89% - for "continue the fight", 5% - "surrender", 6% - did not answer
- the use of the nuclear weapon against the Ukrainian city: 89% - for "continue the struggle", 6% - "surrender", 6% - did not answer
"In a striking contrast to some Western politicians, whose concerns about further military escalation appear to be holding back more assertive support, Ukrainians have not been intimidated by Russian threats," the report's authors comment.
Also, the majority of survey participants - 93% - consider acceptable terms of the cease-fire to be those that provide for the liberation of the entire territory of Ukraine, including Crimea.
As Kekst CNC reports, 1,000 respondents participated in the survey, selected according to quotas of age, gender, place of residence, education, and income level. Residents of the occupied Crimea were not included in the sample.
The Munich Security Conference will run from February 17 to 19.
