Kiev: One year into the Russia-Ukraine conflict, public support in the West for providing military and financial aid to Kiev is waning, a joint poll by The Economist magazine and polling company YouGov has found.
Even Ukraine's most ardent supporters are now less enthusiastic about endorsing them, the Economist added on Monday, releasing election results.
The poll found that between April 2022 and February 2023, support among US Democrats for financial aid to Kiev dropped from 82% to 75%. Republican support for comparable measures dropped by nearly half during the same time frame, from 67% to 39%, it added.
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As their delivery to Ukraine between late January and mid-February 2023 was supported by 70% of Democrats and only 50% of Republicans, it appeared that sending battle tanks to Kiev was still a popular option. However, according to a poll conducted in mid-February by the Associated Press, less than half of Americans support providing military aid to Kiev.
Support for additional sanctions against Moscow that could push up the cost of living in Europe has dropped sharply over the past year in major European countries, according to a poll.
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45% of Britons said they would support such restrictions in February 2022, but by December 2022 support for the measures had fallen to 35% in Britain. In the same time period, it dropped from around 40% to less than 30% in Germany, with Spain, Italy and France following a similar pattern.
Another YouGov poll, released on 24 February, showed that in some European countries, such as France and Italy, those in favor of a negotiated resolution to the conflict between Moscow and Kiev are "as long as it takes" instead of Ukraine. more likely to support.
In Italy, 47% of respondents said they would prefer a peaceful resolution to the conflict, even if it required Kiev to cede some control of some regions to Russia. 38% of French citizens supported this choice. Only 29% of Italians and 37% of French agreed that Kiev should receive more support, even if it prolongs the conflict.
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In the second half of 2022, almost all aid to Kiev decreased even among major European countries. Most Europeans also thought that the conflict had come to a standstill, with Spanish citizens thinking that Russia was gaining the upper hand. Only a small minority of people in the European countries surveyed believed that Kiev was winning the war.