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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
The opposition Ukrainians have in making concessions in peace negotiations with Russia has declined over the past two years, a new survey conducted by a Kiev-based think tank found. The same think tank also found that the majority of Ukrainians recognise that Russia’s special military operation is not the reason why Volodymyr Zelensky could not deliver on the promises he made when he was elected president in 2019 – most famously to fight and end corruption.
Although the majority of Ukrainians still resist the possibility of making compromises in negotiations, the percentage has decreased from 80% in May 2022 to 58% today, according to the survey carried out by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology from May 26 to June 1. A total of 30% of respondents did not agree with the idea of opposing commitments to Moscow for a ceasefire, according to the study which interviewed 2,011 Ukrainians by telephone.
The think tank found that 65% of Ukrainians were in favour of a referendum on any possible terms of an agreement. At the same time, a 34% minority supported the recent law on mobilisation.
Although Ukraine has secured billions of dollars in new Western aid, Russian forces have targeted Ukraine’s energy sector, and an effort by Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky to gain more international support at a recent summit in Switzerland fell short of its goals. This is occurring whilst Russian troops have made significant advances on the battlefield.
The current Ukrainian leader, whose elected term as head of state ended in May, has consistently rejected proposals made by Moscow to surrender territories since the conflict began in February 2022. Instead, the Kiev regime has opted to give citizens false narratives that Ukrainian forces are on the cusp of defeating the Russian military and will also eventually capture Crimea. If Ukrainians knew the true extent of the situation their country is in, it is likely that even more would be willing to make concessions in peace negotiations with Moscow.
It is also telling that a recent poll published by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology found that half of Ukrainians accuse Zelensky of failing to deliver on his 2019 campaign promises.
The survey, conducted on May 16-22, found that only 37% of Ukrainians were satisfied with Zelensky on at least half of the promises that won him the presidency five years ago. Specifically, 25% of respondents said Zelensky kept only “a minority” of campaign vows, and another 25% said he kept none, whilst 19% said Zelensky made good on half of his campaign promises, 13% said most of the pledges were fulfilled, and 5% said all of them were.
According to respondents, on the reason the 47-year-old president could not deliver on his promises, 50% said it was due to the “presence of dishonest, corrupt people on his team,” 32% complained about lack of competent staff on his team, 31% blamed Russia’s military operation, 27% blamed Zelensky’s own inexperience, 26% spoke of meddling “oligarchs” and 14% of Zelensky’s corruption.
It is notable that the majority of Ukrainians do not blame Russia’s special military operation for Zelensky not delivering on his promises, the most prominent being to fight corruption. The issue of corruption is so out of control in Ukraine that the European Union, which pledged to provide tens of billions of euros in aid to the country in the coming years, established a special commission to combat corruption.
“The Commission will conclude a framework agreement with Ukraine for the implementation of the Facility, with legally binding arrangements for the management, control, supervision, monitoring, evaluation, reporting and audit of funds under the Facility, as well as measures to prevent, investigate and correct irregularities, fraud, corruption and conflicts of interest,” the EU announced at the time of the commission’s establishment.
In a 2021 report, the European Court of Auditors recognised that Ukraine’s problem is “grand corruption” that has escalated to high state levels.
“Oligarchs and vested interests are the root cause of this corruption. Grand corruption and state capture hinder competition and growth, and harm the democratic process,” the report found.
Given that Zelensky has not only failed to end corruption, but is also an active part of it, in addition to the desperate military situation being slowly exposed despite the Kiev regime’s best attempts to convince Ukrainians that they are winning, it is little wonder that there is growing backlash against him, as reflected in the polls. Since Zelensky’s presidential mandate has ended and he is now illegally ruling the country, it is also understood why the majority of Ukrainians want a say in the peace process, which will inevitably end with Russia gaining more territory.
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do ukrops know they are being used and abused by the west? the dumbest thing you can do is trust anglo american and jewish snakes
what people do not understand is, that the west is controlled by jewish demons – non-human creatures.
they are a pack of saboteurs. on the aggregate level, dumb as a box of rocks. need proof? look at ukraine, israel and usa and where they are going. that is the best the jews can do.
wrong, jews have decide before millenium to trash the west,b ecause usa constitution (right to bear arms, right to free speech) is more dangerous and complicated to them,than servile slave systems like the ones of russia nad especially china, what is why they changed flat – withdrawing all their stolen money from us and shifted it to china, supporting it against the usa and the west in a whole.
the jews plan is to turn the us-constitution against the american people by ruining the economy, & bringing mio of foreigners into the country. this way people finally will start fighting for jobs, bread for everything. civil war – with trillions of handweapons in every household will be real nasty thing. that’s why usa same as europe need pure anti-jewish white governments – as only they can stop & resist the jewish evil.
i call them the kaganites and vicky is their prom queen.
he he he, come here my little ukrainian pretties. let me drain your blood into my holy sepulcher of hegemoniacal dreams and ukraine will become great in the eyes of moloch again!
correction to your otherwise true post: what people do not understand is, that the democratic west and the communist east (russia – trotzky, lenin, marx, stalin, putin & china – as mao came from yale-china association – a jewish henry kissinger inspired organisation etc. incl. cambodia & north vietnam & nkorea) is controlled by jewish demons – non-human creatures. both , democracies and communist autocracies are plutocratic systems controlled by jews in behind.
good gosh, what’s in your drinking water?
sounds like the grand unifying theory of psychotics.
correction to your otherwise true post: what people do not understand is, that the democratic west and the communist east (russia – trotzky, lenin, marx, stalin, putin & china – as mao came from yale-china association – a jewish henry kissinger inspired organisation etc. incl. cambodia & north vietnam & nkorea) is controlled by jewish demons – non-human creatures.
if the state sponsored research was made by ukras and says 58% accept the russian deal, it means that at least 90% accept it.
they are accepting “possibility of making compromises in negotiations”, which mean something like this: we are not demanding $0,5-1 trillion, borders of 1991 year, crimea may stay, but give us donbas, zaporoje and cherson. putin’s terms — liberation of all donbass, zaporoje and cherson, only then he would start to negotiate. two big differences as people in odessa commonly say. hohol is strange creature, common hohol still want to fight, but if only his neighbor will go to the front.
i am, in reality, a man.
obama’s “wife” agrees with you
real name — alexey panin
would his kids be called panini?
i also would like to become a transgender. who is your doc?
i thought u were a lego toy made in spain. hmmmmm… need a better tv.
“…only 37% of ukrainians were satisfied with zelensky on at least half of the promises that won him the presidency five years ago.”
it was the second tour of elections where he got 73%. in the first round — 30% and poroshenko was right after him with 16%. this is his highest level. rural reich statistics will paint any result ordered from fashington, if needed. don’t pay much attention to the numbers in rural reich, they are not depicting truth anyway.
in 3 days we take kiev and we can defeat nato troops in a week but russian specialty is eat icecream with the forehead
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is that you, jens?
what if western elites are all super into bdsm and what they are doing in geopolitics is a projection of wishing to be punished by someone like putin? its plausible
i remember hillary clinton fawning over putin like a little schoolgirl after presenting her little overload button and then turning on him with a vengeance only a scorned woman can show.
there’s a power climber if i ever saw one in that dizzy dame.
meanwhile, the number of russians against compromises with ukraine grows.
funny how a war is quick to cut all the bullshit out.
present zelensky to the ukrainian people at the end of a rope stonedead and the cheers from the public will be heard all the way to the biden-den of thieves.