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By the end of May, Ukraine is to have received a total of 3mn vaccines.
Officially, 48,075 people have died of coronavirus in Ukraine and more than 1.8mn people have recovered from the infection. In a UNICEF survey last month of 2,027 Ukrainian adults, 22% said they had fallen sick with coronavirus. If this percentage is applied to Ukraine’s adult population of 30mn, it would indicate that around 6mn Ukrainians have had coronavirus.
2.8 Polls & Sociology
The Kyiv-based Rating Group asked Ukrainians to assess President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s performance during his first two years in office. A quarter of respondents deemed Zelenskiy’s second year in office excellent or good, 34% found it merely satisfactory, and 42% believed it was unsatisfactory or terrible. Rating Group also found that Zelenskiy’s trust rating and electoral rating have both increased over the past three months.
In terms Zelenskiy’s policies, respondents gave the best marks to the “State in a Smartphone” initiative, the “Big Construction” infrastructure project, and the release of prisoners and hostages (approximately 40% of respondents considered these policies excellent or good). Ukraine’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, education reform, and the Donbas ceasefire all earned average scores. Ranked the lowest were medical and land reforms, economic development, and the government’s attempts to fight corruption and limit oligarchic influence (between 53% and 65% of respondents felt the results of these initiatives were unsatisfactory or terrible).
Compared to former presidents, Zelenskiy enjoys the highest trust rating — in fact, this indicator has grown to 46%, gaining three percentage points since March (his anti-rating is currently 51%).
The second highest trust rating (36%) is shared by Ukraine’s first two presidents, Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma, followed by third president Viktor Yushchenko (29%), Zelenskiy’s immediate predecessor Petro Poroshenko (24%), and the ousted Viktor Yanukovych (15%).
Support for Zelenskiy’s Servant of the People party has also spiked to nearly 25% — up from 19.5% in March. Meanwhile, support for European Solidarity has declined (14.7% to 13.5%), as has support for the pro-Russian Opposition Platform — For Life (14.3% to 13.2%). Political scientist Vadym Karasiov told Unian that these changes in the ratings suggest future shifts in Ukraine’s electoral map. “The trends towards which everything will move are already visible today,” he said.
Opposition to allowing foreigners to buy farm land remains strong in Ukraine, according to a new poll by the Rating Sociological Group. Of the 2,000 respondents, 79% oppose allowing foreigners to buy farmland and 77% say the issue should be decided by a national referendum. Of respondents who said they would vote in a referendum, 64% told pollsters late last month that they would vote for the foreigner ban.
Two thirds (64%) of Ukrainians disapprove of legislation that allows for the buying and selling of agricultural land and eight out ten (79%) say it should never be sold to foreigners, according to poll by Rating released on May 12. More than three quarters (77%) of Ukrainians are convinced that the
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