21.02.2024
Rating Monitoring, 26th wave: Ukrainians’ perception of other countries’ friendliness (February 10-11, 2024)
- In general, the majority considers the USA and Great Britain (81% each), Germany (80%), Poland and Lithuania (79% each), Canada (78%), France (70%), and Japan (55%) as friendly to Ukraine.
- Poland remains a friendly country for the majority of Ukrainians, but the positive assessment has decreased from 94% to 79% compared to last year. In addition, the share of those who consider Poland unambiguously friendly has decreased from 79% to 33%.
- Although for the majority of Ukrainians, the USA continues to be perceived as a friendly country, but also from 61% in June to 35% nowadays the share of those who say the USA is unambiguously friendly has decreased and instead choose the option “rather friendly”.
- The absolute majority of Ukrainians consider russia (97%), Belarus (90%), and Iran (75%) as hostile countries.
- China and Hungary have moved into the category of rather unfriendly countries: 58% consider China hostile and 52% consider Hungary hostile. Earlier, these two states were perceived more neutrally: in June 2023, China was considered hostile by 34% of respondents, and 52% - neutral, while Hungary was previously considered hostile by 42% of respondents, and another 26% - neutral.
- The attitude to Belarus has also worsened: the share of those polled, who treat Belarus as an absolutely hostile country, has grown from 56% to 71%.
- Israel is considered neutral and friendly: 44% assessed it as neutral, 38% - friendly. Turkey is considered by the majority of Ukrainians as a neutral country (51%). At the same time, compared to June 2023, the prevalence of the opinion that Turkey is a friendly country decreased from 40% to 30%.
Methodology
- Audience: the population of Ukraine aged 18 and older in all regions, except for the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas, as well as territories where Ukrainian mobile communications are not available at the time of the survey. The results are weighted using current data from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. The sample is representative by age, gender and type of settlement.
- Sample population: 1000 respondents.
- Survey method: CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing). Based on a random sample of mobile phone numbers. The error of representativeness of the survey with a confidence level of 0.95: no more than 3.1%.
- Fieldwork dates: February, 10-11, 2024.
Funded by the Rating Group as part of the 26th wave of Monitoring, initiated and ongoing since the third day of the full-scale Russian invasion.
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