Russian public support for Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has dropped significantly and many more people are now in favor of holding peace talks, according to an opinion poll conducted last month.
Just 45 percent of respondents were in favor of continuing what the Kremlin calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, a survey conducted between June 16 and 19 by Russian Field, a nonpartisan Moscow-based research company, found. That’s down 9 percentage points from a survey the company conducted in April 2022, just weeks after the war started.
In the new poll, 44 percent said Russia should engage in peace talks—up from 35 percent of respondents in April 2022.
In its latest poll, Russian Field surveyed a group of 1,604 people across Russia by phone. It was conducted a few weeks into the start of Ukraine’s counteroffensive to recapture the territories seized by Russia throughout the war.
The number of respondents in favor of holding peace talks with Ukraine is at the joint highest level with a poll conducted in late September 2022, which is when Putin announced a partial mobilization of the population to draft about 300,000 men to fight in Ukraine.
That move sparked a max exodus of Russians fleeing to bordering nations, while attacks on military enlistment offices ramped up across the country.
While the Russian public remains split on continuing with the war, mass mobilization would boost pacifist sentiment, the poll showed.
More than half of respondents (54 percent) would prefer for Russia to engage in peace negotiations if a second wave of mobilization is required to continue the “military operation.”
Meanwhile, more than one-third (35 percent) are in favor of continuing hostilities if Putin were to announce a fresh wave of conscripted men to fight in Ukraine.
And more than a third of respondents (35 percent) also said the war needn’t have started. That’s the highest figure since the start of the war, when 28 percent answered in March 2022 that if they had the opportunity to return to the past and change the decision about starting the war, they would.
Russian public support for Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has dropped significantly and many more people are now in favor of holding peace talks, according to an opinion poll conducted last month.
Just 45 percent of respondents were in favor of continuing what the Kremlin calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, a survey conducted between June 16 and 19 by Russian Field, a nonpartisan Moscow-based research company, found. That’s down 9 percentage points from a survey the company conducted in April 2022, just weeks after the war started.
In the new poll, 44 percent said Russia should engage in peace talks—up from 35 percent of respondents in April 2022.
In its latest poll, Russian Field surveyed a group of 1,604 people across Russia by phone. It was conducted a few weeks into the start of Ukraine’s counteroffensive to recapture the territories seized by Russia throughout the war.
More people are now in favor of peace talks, according to a new poll.
The number of respondents in favor of holding peace talks with Ukraine is at the joint highest level with a poll conducted in late September 2022, which is when Putin announced a partial mobilization of the population to draft about 300,000 men to fight in Ukraine.
That move sparked a max exodus of Russians fleeing to bordering nations, while attacks on military enlistment offices ramped up across the country.
While the Russian public remains split on continuing with the war, mass mobilization would boost pacifist sentiment, the poll showed.
More than half of respondents (54 percent) would prefer for Russia to engage in peace negotiations if a second wave of mobilization is required to continue the “military operation.”
Meanwhile, more than one-third (35 percent) are in favor of continuing hostilities if Putin were to announce a fresh wave of conscripted men to fight in Ukraine.
And more than a third of respondents (35 percent) also said the war needn’t have started. That’s the highest figure since the start of the war, when 28 percent answered in March 2022 that if they had the opportunity to return to the past and change the decision about starting the war, they would.
In December, a poll commissioned by the Kremlin “for internal use only,” obtained by Meduza, a Russian-language independent news outlet, found that just 25 percent of Russians favored continuing the conflict.
Meduza said the survey—conducted by the Federal Protective Service, a Russian intelligence agency—found that 55 percent of Russians favored peace talks with Kyiv.
The Kremlin also commissioned polling in July 2022, Meduza reported, and the results suggest public opinion has shifted considerably in just a few months. In the earlier poll, 57 percent were in favor of continuing the war and 32 percent supported peace talks with Ukraine.
Meduza didn’t specify how many people were questioned for the two Kremlin surveys or when the new study was conducted.
Wow, took them long enough!
And really awful to think that someone would support such a war in the first place.
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>War is still ongoing for like more than 1.5 years (or around 10 years if you count from 2014 Crimea Invasion
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>.. dropping rapidly:
Yeah, right.
I suspect it drops around that time of the year when a partial mobilization might be announced.
Gee, this’ll surely have and impact on the conduct of the Kremlin.
Mobilization coming to Moscow and St Petersburg, eh?
Totally irrelevant. 2/3-3/4 of Russians are financially dependent on budget or business of officials. The only reason why there are still mock elections, “political parties” and ratings – fear of losing legal legitimacy.
In 2022 there was a very popular theory that the war was started to completely solve this problem – to crown Putin as Tsar in religious context of “unification of all Orthodox – Slavic – Russian-speaking.” And that’s why the “temple of war” was built for.
P.S. In Russian tradition of tsarism tsar is considered also as pontiff. So if the tsar order to church to kill entire population of the country the church will only reply “this is the word of God!” and fulfill the order. Legally tsar is exactly a despot and no other milder analog (although that doesn’t mean that all tsars were willing or able to be despots).
Was against that motherfucker for 20 years
Not fast enough. And does it even matter, Putin pays enough for the army and that is how the regime continues.
Poor rural russians will get poorer in 5y perpective, but they don’t really have any power to change that.
There will be no real elections, no revolution, nothing. Just growing inequality between rich and poor.
The same entity that sponsored this poll is probably the same one that said Ukraine was on the verge of victory a year ago.
Saying that you want to start “peace talks” rather than “continue the war”, is not necessarily the same as “Not approving” of the war or being “against the war.” Poll Russians on whether or not they want to end the war even if that means Ukraines terms? *shrug*
They should mobilize every single male between the ages of 18 and 30 and send them to front Rich and poor no exceptions Then let’s see how Russians really feel
Even if Russia captures Ukraine all Ukraine has to do is start a legitimate insurgency and bleed Russians dry forever. Russia apparently thinks it won’t be Afghanistan 3.0 but that’s just evidence of how ridiculous they are. I can’t see the Ukrainians ever actually just admitting defeat and being absorbed back into Russia.
I guess Russia assumes the Ukrainians will revert back to the old Soviet days and just go along with it for survival like a lot of Russians do now. You can sort of see this behavior in Eastern Europe still exists so maybe they are counting on it.
The only solution at that point would be trying to legitimately kill every single Ukrainian which I would hope would bring the world into the conflict, likely after a ton of extra bloodshed.
I really don’t see what the endgame is for Russia other than hoping they’ll gain enough citizens from stealing Ukrainians and pulling them back in and hoping the west forgets it again and reopens business channels.
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Russian public support for Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has dropped significantly and many more people are now in favor of holding peace talks, according to an opinion poll conducted last month.
Just 45 percent of respondents were in favor of continuing what the Kremlin calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, a survey conducted between June 16 and 19 by Russian Field, a nonpartisan Moscow-based research company, found. That’s down 9 percentage points from a survey the company conducted in April 2022, just weeks after the war started.
In the new poll, 44 percent said Russia should engage in peace talks—up from 35 percent of respondents in April 2022.
In its latest poll, Russian Field surveyed a group of 1,604 people across Russia by phone. It was conducted a few weeks into the start of Ukraine’s counteroffensive to recapture the territories seized by Russia throughout the war.
The number of respondents in favor of holding peace talks with Ukraine is at the joint highest level with a poll conducted in late September 2022, which is when Putin announced a partial mobilization of the population to draft about 300,000 men to fight in Ukraine.
That move sparked a max exodus of Russians fleeing to bordering nations, while attacks on military enlistment offices ramped up across the country.
While the Russian public remains split on continuing with the war, mass mobilization would boost pacifist sentiment, the poll showed.
More than half of respondents (54 percent) would prefer for Russia to engage in peace negotiations if a second wave of mobilization is required to continue the “military operation.”
Meanwhile, more than one-third (35 percent) are in favor of continuing hostilities if Putin were to announce a fresh wave of conscripted men to fight in Ukraine.
And more than a third of respondents (35 percent) also said the war needn’t have started. That’s the highest figure since the start of the war, when 28 percent answered in March 2022 that if they had the opportunity to return to the past and change the decision about starting the war, they would.
Russian public support for Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has dropped significantly and many more people are now in favor of holding peace talks, according to an opinion poll conducted last month.
Just 45 percent of respondents were in favor of continuing what the Kremlin calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, a survey conducted between June 16 and 19 by Russian Field, a nonpartisan Moscow-based research company, found. That’s down 9 percentage points from a survey the company conducted in April 2022, just weeks after the war started.
In the new poll, 44 percent said Russia should engage in peace talks—up from 35 percent of respondents in April 2022.
In its latest poll, Russian Field surveyed a group of 1,604 people across Russia by phone. It was conducted a few weeks into the start of Ukraine’s counteroffensive to recapture the territories seized by Russia throughout the war.
More people are now in favor of peace talks, according to a new poll.
The number of respondents in favor of holding peace talks with Ukraine is at the joint highest level with a poll conducted in late September 2022, which is when Putin announced a partial mobilization of the population to draft about 300,000 men to fight in Ukraine.
That move sparked a max exodus of Russians fleeing to bordering nations, while attacks on military enlistment offices ramped up across the country.
While the Russian public remains split on continuing with the war, mass mobilization would boost pacifist sentiment, the poll showed.
More than half of respondents (54 percent) would prefer for Russia to engage in peace negotiations if a second wave of mobilization is required to continue the “military operation.”
Meanwhile, more than one-third (35 percent) are in favor of continuing hostilities if Putin were to announce a fresh wave of conscripted men to fight in Ukraine.
And more than a third of respondents (35 percent) also said the war needn’t have started. That’s the highest figure since the start of the war, when 28 percent answered in March 2022 that if they had the opportunity to return to the past and change the decision about starting the war, they would.
In December, a poll commissioned by the Kremlin “for internal use only,” obtained by Meduza, a Russian-language independent news outlet, found that just 25 percent of Russians favored continuing the conflict.
Meduza said the survey—conducted by the Federal Protective Service, a Russian intelligence agency—found that 55 percent of Russians favored peace talks with Kyiv.
The Kremlin also commissioned polling in July 2022, Meduza reported, and the results suggest public opinion has shifted considerably in just a few months. In the earlier poll, 57 percent were in favor of continuing the war and 32 percent supported peace talks with Ukraine.
Meduza didn’t specify how many people were questioned for the two Kremlin surveys or when the new study was conducted.
Wow, took them long enough!
And really awful to think that someone would support such a war in the first place.
based
>War is still ongoing for like more than 1.5 years (or around 10 years if you count from 2014 Crimea Invasion
​
>.. dropping rapidly:
Yeah, right.
I suspect it drops around that time of the year when a partial mobilization might be announced.
Gee, this’ll surely have and impact on the conduct of the Kremlin.
/s
[*SPOILER*](https://youtu.be/rllvaWMFQ_w?si=SV5IyvG6Ug-Rsuxy)
Mobilization coming to Moscow and St Petersburg, eh?
Totally irrelevant. 2/3-3/4 of Russians are financially dependent on budget or business of officials. The only reason why there are still mock elections, “political parties” and ratings – fear of losing legal legitimacy.
In 2022 there was a very popular theory that the war was started to completely solve this problem – to crown Putin as Tsar in religious context of “unification of all Orthodox – Slavic – Russian-speaking.” And that’s why the “temple of war” was built for.
P.S. In Russian tradition of tsarism tsar is considered also as pontiff. So if the tsar order to church to kill entire population of the country the church will only reply “this is the word of God!” and fulfill the order. Legally tsar is exactly a despot and no other milder analog (although that doesn’t mean that all tsars were willing or able to be despots).
Was against that motherfucker for 20 years
Not fast enough. And does it even matter, Putin pays enough for the army and that is how the regime continues.
Poor rural russians will get poorer in 5y perpective, but they don’t really have any power to change that.
There will be no real elections, no revolution, nothing. Just growing inequality between rich and poor.
The same entity that sponsored this poll is probably the same one that said Ukraine was on the verge of victory a year ago.
Saying that you want to start “peace talks” rather than “continue the war”, is not necessarily the same as “Not approving” of the war or being “against the war.” Poll Russians on whether or not they want to end the war even if that means Ukraines terms? *shrug*
They should mobilize every single male between the ages of 18 and 30 and send them to front Rich and poor no exceptions Then let’s see how Russians really feel
Even if Russia captures Ukraine all Ukraine has to do is start a legitimate insurgency and bleed Russians dry forever. Russia apparently thinks it won’t be Afghanistan 3.0 but that’s just evidence of how ridiculous they are. I can’t see the Ukrainians ever actually just admitting defeat and being absorbed back into Russia.
I guess Russia assumes the Ukrainians will revert back to the old Soviet days and just go along with it for survival like a lot of Russians do now. You can sort of see this behavior in Eastern Europe still exists so maybe they are counting on it.
The only solution at that point would be trying to legitimately kill every single Ukrainian which I would hope would bring the world into the conflict, likely after a ton of extra bloodshed.
I really don’t see what the endgame is for Russia other than hoping they’ll gain enough citizens from stealing Ukrainians and pulling them back in and hoping the west forgets it again and reopens business channels.
I guess we will see