(Reuters) – More than 50% of Ukrainians are critical of U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace efforts, fearing they are likely to lead to a partly unjust or completely unfair end to Russia’s war on their country, a Ukrainian pollster said on Tuesday.
Trump has promised to bring about a quick end to the three-year-old war but he has at times repeated Kremlin lines regarding the conflict – and at one point he blamed Kyiv for starting it. He also temporarily suspended military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine.
The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) said it based its findings on a survey of 1,326 people on Ukrainian-held territory from March 12-22.
It said that 32% of respondents expected “rather an unjust peace, although with the fulfilment of some of Ukraine’s demands”, while 22% expected a “totally unjust peace”.
Only 3% said they believed Trump could bring about a just peace with 15% expecting a “rather just peace, although with some concessions to Russia”, it added.
The figures suggest Ukrainians have grown less optimistic about Trump’s efforts since he took office in January.
In December, 20% had said they expected a “rather unjust peace” with 11% expecting a totally unjust outcome, KIIS reported of its surveys.
“Even before 2025, there was some disappointment with the US actions in Ukraine, and the Trump administration is quite decisively cementing the disapproval of the U.S.,” KIIS’s executive director, Anton Hrushetskyi, said in a statement.
Separately, 67% Ukrainians believe the U.S. is getting tired of Ukraine and trying to press it to accept concessions, KIIS said.
(Reporting by Yuliia Dysa; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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