Poll: Over half of Ukrainians oppose provision of special status to Donbas

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published Oct. 11, 2019 at 3:42 pm

Activists of nationalist parties protest in front of The Presidential Office on Oct. 1, 2019, in Kyiv against the just-approved ultimate edition of the so-called Steinmeier Formula regulating possible local elections in Russian-occupied Donbas as part of the Minsk peace settlement.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

More than half of Ukrainians (56 percent) do not support the provision of the special status to Donbas and enshrining it in the Constitution of Ukraine, according to a survey conducted by the Razumkov Center from October 4 through October 9, 2019.

The majority of respondents (56 percent) oppose the provision of a special status for certain territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and enshrining it in the Constitution of Ukraine (only 26 percent of respondents support it). The idea of introducing a federal structure in Ukraine is not supported by 63 percent of respondents, while 17 percent support it.