40% of Ukrainians believe the country is heading in the right direction — KIIS poll
Forty percent of Ukrainians believe the country is heading in the right direction, down slightly from February 2024, according to a Kyiv International Institute of Sociology poll released on Oct. 5.
According to a poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, 40% of Ukrainians currently believe their country is moving in the right direction. This figure represents a slight decrease from February 2024, when 44% of respondents held the same view. Meanwhile, 45% of Ukrainians perceive the country as heading in the wrong direction, with 15% remaining undecided.
The percentage of those undecided has increased slightly from 10% in February 2024 to 15%. The survey, which polled 1,002 adult Ukrainian citizens living in government-controlled territory from September 12 to 21, 2026, also revealed that 69% of Ukrainians believed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should remain in office until the end of martial law.
Some respondents advocated for holding a presidential election, including 15% who supported doing so even if martial law persisted for three months, and 11% who favored amending laws to permit an election under martial law.
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