Trust of Ukrainians in US has halved over year

The share of Ukrainians who trust the US has decreased twofold, from 41% to 21% since December 2024, while the number of those who do not trust the US has doubled over the year.

Source: a survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) from 26 November to 13 December

Quote: "The USA is trusted by 21% (down from 41% in December 2024) and distrusted by 48% (up from 24% in December 2024). The remaining 32% could not decide on their opinion. (At the same time, let's recall our results for May 2025: when asked about ordinary Americans, then 90% of Ukrainians have a good attitude towards them)."

Details: NATO is trusted by 34% of respondents (down from 43% in December 2024), while 41% do not trust the Alliance (up from 25%). The remaining 25% could not decide.

At the same time, 49% trust the EU and 23% do not trust it (in December 2024, these figures were 46% and 19% respectively, that is almost unchanged). The remaining 27% answered that it was "hard to say".

For reference: The survey was conducted from 26 November to 13 December. Using telephone interviews based on a random sample of mobile phone numbers, 547 respondents aged 18 and over were surveyed, all of whom live in territory controlled by the Ukrainian government. The sample did not include residents of territories temporarily not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities (although some respondents were internally displaced persons who had moved from occupied territories), nor did it include citizens who left Ukraine after 24 February 2022.

Under normal circumstances, the formal statistical margin of error for such a sample (with a probability of 0.95 and taking into account a design effect of 1.3) does not exceed 5.6% for indicators close to 50%, 4.8% for indicators close to 25%, 3.4% for indicators close to 10%, and 2.5% for indicators close to 5%.

Under wartime conditions, in addition to the stated formal margin of error, a certain systematic bias is present. However, sociologists believe that the results nevertheless retain a high level of representativeness and allow for a fairly reliable analysis of public sentiment.

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