KYIV, Nov 1 – In addition to the war, Ukrainians are most concerned about the problems of corruption (63%) and low wages and pensions (46%), according to a nationwide poll conducted on September 30 through October 13 by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).
The respondents also named high utility tariffs (24%), demographic risks (22%), unemployment (20%), no invitation to NATO (15%), the risk of the demolition of democracy and the threat of authoritarianism (9%), the risk of untimely talks on the EU accession, too slow restoration of the war-affected regions (8% each), the cutting of local communities' budgets (7%), the insufficient support for internally displaced persons (5%), and the slowdown of road construction (3%) as important problems.
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