Between May 19 and 24, we commissioned questions in the nationally representative Omnibus survey of Ukrainians by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS). Researchers posed a binary question about possibly conceding territory for peace in which 82% agreed with the statement that: “Under no circumstances should Ukraine relinquish any of its territories, even if this prolongs the war and threatens its independence.”

Given that the contested territories are different (as described above), does naming specific territorial concessions, or wartime experiences, make a difference? To do so, we probed attitudes to four territorial compromise scenarios.

Our question read: “All choices about what to do during this current Russian aggression have significant, but different, costs. Knowing this, which of the following four choices should the Ukraine government take at this time?”

The options and respective national percentages were:

1. Reaching an immediate ceasefire by both sides with conditions and starting intensive negotiations (14.9%)
2. Continue opposing Russian aggression until the territory occupied by Russia since February 24, 2022 is liberated (8.6%)
3. Continuing opposing Russian aggression until all Ukrainian territory except Crimea is liberated (12.2%)
4. Continue opposing Russian aggression until all of Ukraine, including Crimea, is under Kyiv control (61%).

And 3.3% responded “hard to say”.