Ukrainians' opinion split on what borders will look like after war ends – survey

Ukrainians are divided over what Ukraine's borders will look like after the war ends: 32% believe the border will run along the current front line, while 31% say the country will regain all the territory it had when independence was declared in 1991.

Source: results of a Rating Group poll conducted from 30 May to 3 June 2026

Details: The survey found that 32% of Ukrainians said that after the war ends, Ukraine's borders will run along the current front line.

Meanwhile, 31% of respondents believe Ukraine will retain all the territory it had in 1991.

A further 16% said Ukraine will regain the territories it controlled before Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022; 7% said Ukraine will regain Donbas but not Crimea; 5% said Ukraine would regain Crimea but not the so-called so-called Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics; 1% said Ukraine will be occupied by Russia and 3% gave other answers. [Donetsk People's Republic or DPR and Luhansk People's Republic or LPR are self-proclaimed Russia-backed quasi-state formations in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts – ed.]

For reference: The poll was conducted by the Rating Group for International Republican Institute's (IRI) Center for Insights in Survey Research (CISR).

The survey was conducted from 30 May to 3 June 2026 using CATI (Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview). The sample size was 2,404 respondents aged 18 and older.

The poll was conducted in all oblasts except temporarily occupied territories and areas where Ukrainian mobile coverage was unavailable at the time of the survey.

Margin of error is about 2% with a confidence level of 0.95.

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