Support for war in Ukraine hits record low in Russia: only 30% in favor, new poll says

The Moscow Times reported the information, citing the Levada Center's poll results.

In April 2025, 30% of polled Russians supported continuing the war, the lowest since the start of the invasion of Ukraine. This is a 9 percentage point drop from a year ago and a 14 percentage point drop since March 2022.

Meanwhile, 61% of respondents supported starting negotiations with Kyiv, matching the record set in January. The lowest support for peace talks (45%) was in May 2023, when Ukrainian drones first attacked Moscow. Since then, support for peace has increased by 16 percentage points.

Pensioners still make up the majority of those supporting the war: 40% of people over 55 want the war to continue, while only 18% of those aged 18 to 39 feel the same.

The survey also shows that in April, 19% of Russians “did not follow the situation around Ukraine at all,” twice as many as at the start of the war. Among those under 24, 33% have stopped following the war, and 31% of those aged 25-39 feel the same.

Even the liberation of the Kursk region, the first Russian region to be under foreign occupation since World War II, was considered the top event of April by only 3% of Russians, the same as those who followed the weather. Drone attacks that disrupted airport operations interested just 2% of citizens.

The poll also revealed that 40% of Russians believe the war has caused more harm than good to Russia.

• U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, commenting on the Russian-Ukrainian war, said that “Russia can’t expect to be given territory that they haven’t even conquered yet.”