KYIV. July 8 (Interfax) - Voters of none of the political parties in Ukraine support peace in Donbas at any cost, as is seen from a public opinion poll conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Razumkov Center sociological service.
"Voters of none of the political parties support peace at any cost. This idea is least of all popular among the voters of the Holos (10%) and European Solidarity (7%) parties, and the highest share of those supporting it is among the Opposition Platform - For Life party voters (36.5%). But even voters of this party chiefly believe that only certain compromises are possible for peace, not all of them," Iryna Bekeshkina of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation said during the presentation of the poll findings in Kyiv on Monday.
The survey found that 48.8% of Ukrainians believe that Kyiv should agree to some compromises with Russia and the leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) if this helps achieve peace; particularly, 20.1% of those polled believe any compromises with anyone are acceptable for peace, 17.4% share the view the peace in Donbas can be established only from the position of strength, when one of the sides wins, and 13.7% were undecided.
A majority of the respondents see most of possible compromises under consideration in line with the Minsk Agreements as unacceptable, the poll showed.
The least acceptable of these terms (for respondents in all regions of Ukraine) include: the organization of elections on the separatists' terms (unacceptable to 66%, acceptable to 13% of those polled), absolute amnesty for all who fought against the Ukrainian government forces (unacceptable to 61%, acceptable to 15%), and the formation of security agencies in the DPR and LPR solely of local representatives (unacceptable to 58%, acceptable to 18%).
The terms mostly unacceptable to Ukrainians also include constitutional amendments granting the Russian language official status (unacceptable to 54%, acceptable to 30%), consent to special political and economic relations between the temporarily uncontrolled territories and Russia (unacceptable to 53%, acceptable to 23%), and the adoption of legislation on Ukraine's neutral and non-aligned status (unacceptable to 48%, acceptable to 29%).
The poll of 2,017 respondents was conducted in all regions of Ukraine aged 18 and older from June 13 to 20, 2019.