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Smeshko – 6.6%, for former MP Yevhen Murayev – 5.6%, for former Prime Minister, leader of the Ukrainian Strategy party Volodymyr Groysman – 5.1%, and for others – no more than 4%.
Zelensky leads in 17 regions. In Kyiv, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, he shares the primacy with Poroshenko, in Kharkiv – with Boiko. Only in Lviv region Poroshenko comes out on top, in Vinnytsia – Groysman, and in Donetsk and Luhansk – Boiko.
Among the generation of independence, every second person chooses Zelensky. Among them, his result is more than 4 times higher than that of Poroshenko. Zelensky has a high rating among the youngest voters who have not yet voted (16-17 years old): more than 50% choose him in general and almost 70% of those who would vote and have made their choice.
As many as 44.4% of Ukrainians do not believe that Crimea could ever be reincorporated into Ukraine again, as seen from the findings of a public opinion poll conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation jointly with the Razumkov Center sociological service.
Asked how likely Crimea's reincorporation into Ukraine in the future seemed to them, 9.3% answered this could happen in the near future, 34% that this is rather possible, but in a more distant future, 27.3% that this is rather impossible, and 17.1% that this is absolutely impossible and that Ukraine has lost Crimea forever.
Among the respondents who believe that Crimea might be returned to Ukraine, 41.7% view diplomatic efforts aimed at toughening international sanctions on Russia as the most efficient way to accomplish this, 46% favor reforms to increase standards of living in Ukraine, which could seem appealing to the Crimeans; 12% believe that negotiations with Russia on the matter could be successful, and 13% propose Crimea's full isolation.
Among the respondents who view Crimea's reincorporation into Ukraine as impossible, 52% named Russia's military presence on the peninsula as the main factor. Listing other factors preventing Ukraine from ever regaining Crimea, 39% mentioned negative attitudes toward Ukraine among the peninsula's residents, 35% a long period of Crimea's being part of Russia, 29.3% the Ukrainian leadership's lack of interest in regaining Crimea, and 28.7% weak international support for Ukraine's efforts to regain the peninsula.
Some 66.9% of Ukrainians believe that in order to restore peace in Ukraine, return Donbas and establish good-neighborly relations with the Russian Federation, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy must hold a personal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the results of the monitoring survey of the population of Ukraine "Dynamics of
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