Two-thirds of Ukrainians say Russia's goal is genocide, Ukraine's destruction — KIIS poll

The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology survey results show this.

Thus, 66% of Ukrainians believe that Russia's goal is still to destroy Ukraine: Russia wants to either commit physical genocide of Ukrainians (28%) or seize all/majority of Ukraine's territory and destroy the Ukrainian statehood and nation (38%).

At the same time, another 14% believe that Russia wants to seize all or most of the territory and install a puppet government. 7% think that Russia wants to seize the entire Donbas, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

“Thus, 87% of Ukrainians believe that Russia does not want to stop at the already occupied territories,” the report says.

Meanwhile, only 4% of Ukrainians believe that Russia only seeks to preserve the already occupied territories. And only 3% chose the option that Russia only wants to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine. The remaining 7% could not answer the question.

Reference. The survey was conducted between February 14 and March 4, 2025. It involved 1,029 adult respondents. 

Formally, under normal circumstances, the statistical error of such a sample (with a probability of 0.95 and taking into account the design effect of 1.3) did not exceed 4.1% for indicators close to 50%, 3.5% for indicators close to 25%, 2.5% for indicators close to 10%, and 1.8% for indicators close to 5%.

• As of March 2025, 67% of citizens expressed trust in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.