August 23, 2022
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Hard-Won Unity: Polls Show Russian Invasion Is Transforming Ukrainian Self-Identity ( Aleksander Palikot, 8/23/22, RFE)
Ahead of Ukraine's Independence Day on August 24 and six months after Russia launched its large-scale invasion of the country, opinion polls indicate growing unity on key issues among Ukrainians and a widespread unwillingness to make any territorial concessions to Moscow."Ukrainians are united like never before, but it's a hard-won unity" Anton Hrushetskiy, deputy director of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), told RFE/RL.According to a poll conducted by KIIS in July, a historic 85 percent of Ukrainians identify themselves above all as citizens of Ukraine, as opposed to residents of their region, representatives of an ethnic minority, or some other identifier.
Posted by Orrin Judd at August 23, 2022 6:34 PM