A poll released by Gallup on Tuesday found that the majority of Ukrainians want peace talks to end the war with Russia.
The poll, conducted in August and October, found that 52% of respondents wanted talks with Russia to end the conflict as soon as possible, while 38% believed Ukraine should keep fighting, and 9% said they didn’t know or refused to answer.
Out of the 52% who favor negotiations, 52% said Ukraine should be open to territorial concessions, while 38% disagreed, and 10% said they weren’t sure.
The survey marked the first time since the Russian invasion that a Gallup poll found the majority of Ukrainians favored negotiations to end the war. The support for peace talks is stronger in eastern areas of Ukraine near the frontlines, where 63% want negotiations to end the war, and only 27% want the fighting to continue.
The poll, published on the 1,000th day of the war, came amid a major US escalation in the war as Ukraine began striking Russian territory with long-range US-provided missiles. The Biden administration appears to be doing whatever it can to escalate the conflict before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in on January 20.
The US is escalating the proxy war despite Ukraine having no clear path to victory. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pushing for more US support as part of his so-called “victory plan,” but even he has acknowledged the war will likely end through diplomacy in 2025.
I'm curious as to how the almost 20% of people who favor negotations without territorial concessions imagine these negotations. At this point I think negotations are a moot point anyway. This war could have ended with negotations, in fact it could have ended with negotations very quickly. And multiple times since then. Stronger still, the SMO could have not started at all with negotations.
But now it is most likely going to end with capitulation, unconditional surrender and full implementation of Russia's objectives and then some. And then the world continues to change along this path. Or the alternative is the world doesn't continue.
Our resident "experts" will soon be trolling you with strong responses. I'm with you. I would have personally started with "Russia is so stupid" or "38% of Ukrainians want to fight 'till the last Ukrainian" for them to leave you alone. But it's not a guarantee.
It was ending in 2022, until we dispatched Boris to tap on Zelenski's shoulder and tell him to push away from the table. Was there an innuendo that he may hang from a lamp post if he went ahead with a deal to end the war? From us and the Banderites in the Kiev administration?
Enough $$$ bills in addition may have done the trick too.
Thanks to D.DeCamp for this article. Whose say-so did firing the ATACMs require? Zelensky's? One general's?
Just the say of a deranged old man they call president and the illegal Clown in Kiev, that is it. They have the power to make the blue planet disappear in nothingness.
And Putin is what? An Angel of peace. LOL.
Like it or not, Putin is a capable, common sense leader. Learn to deal with that well known fact, start accepting the fact that Russia is winning in Ukraine, no denial on your part can change that, deal with reality. Biden is a deranged psychopath and so is Netanyahu, both men are sick and so are the people around them in Washington and Tel Aviv.
It's odd Major Burns should try his Apartheid State of Israel apologetics in the Russia-Ukraine topic. Why he'd bring s**t methodology and track record of lies into ANOTHER wrong-side-of-history position is puzzling and baffling.
Could he be a paid troll? Could it explain the lack of rational reasoning? A Major would have a college education, but that is almost meaningless now.
Sure, if you are against Putin and its failed invasion of Ukraine, you are a Neo nazi, a troll, a warmonger or a low IQ individual.
If I had a nickel for every time I read this here.
The paid trolls calling others paid trolls.
No one but your own fellow Russians here believe your BS.
You hate to admit it, Putin is a competent, common sense leader with the support of the great majority of the Russian people. Our problem is the fact that we are ruled by a psychopathic money elite, war profiteers, that is the problem.
Only sick people can support such people, excusing genocide and sadistic war crimes requires sick minds. Israeli society went totally bonkers, how else could they support the Netanyahu psychopaths', that is what he is and all the others with him, the same is true of Biden and Trump and Harris. Only deranged people could do what they are doing and all for more money and power, what else could it be?
That clown in Kyiv can play a piano with his penis and has destroyed the best half of the Russian army.
Not so bad for a clown.
Hate on that, loser.
Yet time and cannon fodder aren't and will never be on his side.
Don't bet your basement on it.
Peace talks would certainly bring about some good results…
But that takes people with character and common sense, all we have are rabid, mad war criminals.
In both parties.
Their political lives depend on money from the "right"sources who determine their political lives.
Step out of line, and regret it. Most are lawyers who dread having the option of going back to being ambulance chasers, cappers.
Where are the profits in peace talks?
"Peace Sells – But Who's Buyin' ?"
Not the MIC shareholders, although peace is very profitable for the people who fund the MIC profits and more.
He cancelled "elections".. what's the difference between totalitarian and democracy… Nothing McDonald's is available in both countries
WHAT POLL, WHO WERE THE RESPONDENTS FROM WHAT IS LEFT OF UKRAINIANS, the people arrested and forced to give their lives for a lost cause? Zelensky needs decency and common sense and not useless polls. Biden should be hanged with his head down, he is one of the worst psychopath war criminals, on par with Netanyahu and the Likud Israeli people. A nation gone mad, as have the Americans in support of the lunatics. That includes the Trump pack.
The 38% who want to keep fighting are delusional. The Russians are advancing on a wide front, only slowed down by the need to blow up dragon's teeth and mines, and sweeping away the trenches in their way.
Ukraine's front is crumbling – in fact, they should have sued for peace after Avdiivka fell, where they'd bet everything. After Avdiivka they had no real fortifications. Digging a common dirt trench is no fortification in modern warfare, it is blown away by artillery.
Zelensky put all the elite units in Kursk, a pocket with forests and rivers, where the biggest town has only about 2,000 people or so. All for the PR in holding Russian land. The Russians have the pocket safely surrounded, hitting it with artillery and drones from three sides, and Zelensky just keeps sending in more. Just like he did in Bakhmut, destroying the Ukrainian reserves that could have been used in the summer offensive half a year later.
Military vehicles can usually be repaired after being hit, but you need to retrieve them. That is difficult for the Ukrainians in Kursk, with its narrow roads. So the Russians are concentrating on destroying vehicles.
The massive waste of Ukrainian troops in Kursk means that, soldiers say, "where there used to be five men in a trench there are now one or two."
They put chefs, mechanics, and even anti-air and drone personnel in the trenches. Imagine being an anti-air expert and now you're put in a trench. Just waiting for the Russian drones, artillery, and FAB bombs.
The Russians have a tactic where they hold down a Ukrainian trench with a drone or a tank, while a few Russians pass by the trench on motorbikes or by foot. Two Russians will sit in the empty buildings behind the trenches and fire at supply trucks. The Ukrainians can't get rid of them because they aren't trained to attack – they're only there to hold rifles in the trench. So the Russians easily disrupt the front this way.
If you look at the Weeb Union account or Military Summary on YouTube, you see the constant advancement of the Russians every single day. This info is from mapping services such as the Deep State site, which is pro-Ukrainian and always waits until the last moment before admitting that land is lost. Even they have to show the Russians constantly liberating more of western Donbass.
Or read Simplicius the Thinker on Substack, who is the absolutely best writer on what's happening in the war, with info about missile strikes etc.
The Ukrainians used footage from September to pretend there was a big explosion after using six ATACMs just now. The Russians say they shot down five of the six, we'll see in satellite photos soon. There are only 50 ATACMs missiles in Ukraine and Zelensky wasted six on hitting an old Soviet depot that has no connection to the current war, but that contains ammunition that could go BOOM and give him some great footage. To impress those who don't know any better. Zelensky did NOT hit any relevant military center near Kursk, as he knows they are too well-defended.
So this was Zelensky's usual show, all PR and no substance.
Biden has reportedly not given Britain and France permission to let the Ukrainians use their similar missiles. And there are only ten of the French missiles anyway. So this looks suspiciously close to another backroom-deal, where Biden authorizes the strike on some meaningless target for show, to show that he's Standing Up to Trump, and in exchange the Russians get something else.
Great post, even I understand it. But insanity really rules.
Great post? haha.
You Russians trolls are so funny.
"Ukrainians" polled & other bias
1 Excluding those former "Ukrainians" who rejected the US-coup and joined Russia. For the US-NATO pollsters the opinions of those people do not matter… even though they facetiously insist those people are "Ukrainians" who "belong" to the puppet coup government in Kiev.
2 phrasing affects poll results…e.g. "give up territorial concessions" vs "give up attempting to subdue and rule over the ethnic Russian regions".
3 "keep fighting"… until when? until the last "Ukrainian"? Russia is defeated? US-NATO declares war? Negotiations begin?
Trump becomes US president? Zelensky is ousted? Until a Kiev defeat becomes obvious to all?
At the end of the tunnel stands Unconditional Surrender, the only way to get out of the tunnel, that was not included in the poll as far as I know.
There will not be a surrender; Your Russia will have to pull its army of incompetent washer machine and toilet thieves out of Ukraine.
dripping with racism aren't we ?
Racism? Really?
What part of my post was racist?
Tell me Mr. Peace or should I say, Mr. Pro Putin war?
The Ukrainian Civil War began in 2014.
indeed , roughly 50% of the pre-2014 population of The Ukraine has already voted with their feet to join Russia
I hope, at the end President Putin will be as presidential victor and rational statesman he really is. He is not a vindictive person, he is with the people. He will want a lasting peace agreement considering a long healing process for the Ukrainian and Russian people.
I truly hope the people will get a chance to heal after the ordeal they had to go through.
He is such a victor and national statement. Lol
Wow! The guy who started a war with its neighbor and is killing Russians and Ukrainians and stealing their land.
He is a big loser and a coward. A Hitler wannabe. That's what he is.
Bull Sh*t.
"A [new] poll…found that the majority of Ukrainians want peace talks to end the war with Russia….52% of respondents wanted talks with Russia to end the conflict as soon as possible."
And this shows the direction of Ukrainian thinking – despite Ukraine's government-controlled press:
On that poll, Breaking Points says that's up about 30% over the last "couple years" (4:10 forward on below link):
Another Adobe Photoshop makeover for Mr SquintyEyes.
Hey Comrade Z, you'd better listen…
US foreign policy …. Brain. Dead. ….
What's necessary? A lobotomy.
Oh Come on! Did Gallup make the random telephone calls to Ukrainians? Better yet, do they even have a functioning landlines? Also, what was the margin of error? Don’t kid yourselves. This is for western consumption and nothing more.