Ukraine Gate- Kyiv – April 20, 2022- According to a survey conducted by the global research company Ipsos, 82% of the population of 27 countries consider the Russian war against Ukraine a threat to the world, and 61% believe that it poses a danger to their country.
According to the survey, the percentage of adults who follow news from Ukraine ranges from 57% to 77%. However, the highest level of interest was recorded in Japan (89%) and Sweden (83%), and the lowest in Malaysia (49%).
People over 50 years old (78%), businessmen (76%) and people with higher education (73%) pay special attention to events in Ukraine.
The idea that his country faces high risks is most common in Japan (87%), Poland (77%), South Korea (77%) and Sweden (75%).
Worldwide, 74% of people believe their country should accept Ukrainian refugees, with this view more common in Sweden (89%), the Netherlands (86%), Spain (85%) and Poland (84%). The lowest percentage is in Turkey (53%), which hosts four million refugees, most of them from Syria.
Meanwhile, 61% of respondents said that their countries cannot afford Ukraine’s financial support.
70% of respondents believe that their country should support sovereign states during the offensive and that no action in Ukraine will encourage Russia to continue military aggression (68%).
72% of respondents also said that their country should avoid military intervention and that military action in Ukraine would contribute to attacks on other countries (68%).
According to the poll, the prevailing opinion in Saudi Arabia, Hungary, Malaysia and India is that the problems of Ukraine are not their business and they should not interfere in them. This opinion is also shared by half of the respondents in Mexico, Israel and Argentina.
On the other hand, it varies between 65% and 80% in all the other eight EU member states surveyed (except Hungary), as well as in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, Japan and South Korea.
It should be noted that the difference becomes more pronounced when it comes to providing military support or sending troops to Ukraine.
About 36% worldwide support providing arms to the Ukrainian military, however, those who support sending their own forces to Ukraine are a minority in each of the 27 countries, with an average of 17%.
On average, two-thirds of respondents around the world agree that economic sanctions against Russia in many countries are an effective tactic to help end the war, from 50% in Hungary to 78% in South Korea.
Notably, the survey was conducted on 19,000 adults under the age of 75 from March 25 to April 3 on the online survey platform.
