Overview
- 54% say handing the entire Donbas to Russia for U.S. and European guarantees is categorically unacceptable, 39% would accept the concession, and 5% are undecided.
- Among those rejecting the trade-off, 35% say Russia would keep waging war, 33% cite territorial integrity and the constitution, and 25% doubt the realism of Western guarantees.
- 77% believe Russia advances slowly with heavy losses and that Ukraine can sustain effective resistance, while 12% take a pessimistic view and 11% are undecided.
- 69% do not expect current talks to yield lasting peace, and 57% think Russia would attack again even after a ceasefire with security guarantees; only 11% think it would not.
- 69% believe Russia seeks genocide or the destruction of Ukraine’s nation and statehood and 83% say Moscow’s aims exceed Donbas, with the existential view up from 66% in February 2025.