The Armed Forces rank first in terms of public trust in the institutions, with 73% of Ukrainians trusting them, according to the findings of a sociological survey conducted by the Razumkov Centre.
Next in the ranking are:
volunteer fighter units (85%),
volunteer army support organisations (84%),
State Emergency Service (83%),
National Guard (81%),
State Border Service (76.5%),
President of Ukraine (72%),
Ministry of Defence (71%),
Security Service of Ukraine (66%),
NGOs (60.5%),
church (59%),
National Police (57%),
the head of a settlement where the respondent lives (54%).
Ukrainians also expressed more trust than distrust in the council of the city (town, village) where the respondent lives (49% and 41% respectively), in the Ukrainian media (47% and 43% respectively), in the National Bank of Ukraine (46% and 42% respectively), and in the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) (44% and 31% respectively).
The majority of respondents express distrust in political parties (74%), the state apparatus (officials) (72%), courts (the judicial system in general) (70%), the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (64%), the Prosecutor's Office (61%), the Government of Ukraine (60%), commercial banks (59%), the National Anticorruption Bureau (53%), the Specialised Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office (52%), and the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (52%).
Respondents also expressed more distrust than trust in trade unions (46% distrust them, while 25% trust them).
According to Ukrainians, a political force that can be entrusted with power in the post-war period can most often emerge from the military (52% of respondents believe so).
Some 30% of respondents believe that it can emerge from the volunteer community (5% more than in July 2023), 25% - from the humanitarian or technical intelligentsia (7% more than in July 2023), 23% - from existing political parties (3% less than in July), 19% - from civil society organisations, 8% - from the business community.
Some 62% of respondents said that the political force that can be entrusted with power in a post-war state is among the existing parties. Half of respondents also believe that such a political force could emerge from the military.
As for trust in politicians, officials and public figures, the trust rating is as follows:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy (75%),
Vitaliy Kim, head of the Mykolayiv regional military administration (64%),
Serhiy Prytula, head of the eponymous foundation (51%).
More often, people expressed trust than distrust in Mykhaylo Podolyak (45% and 30%, respectively), Vitaliy Klitschko (44% and 39.5%, respectively), Oleksiy Danilov (42% and 35.5%, respectively), Vasyl Malyuk (34% and 21%, respectively), Yuriy Butusov (31% and 25%, respectively), Serhiy Sternenko (28.5% and 26%, respectively), Ihor Klymenko (26% and 22%, respectively), and Rustem Umerov (25% and 21%, respectively).
The majority of respondents do not trust Yuriy Boyko (82%), Yuliya Tymoshenko (82%), Petro Poroshenko (73%), Oleksiy Arestovych (71%), Dmytro Gordon (58%), Davyd Arakhamiya (54%), Andriy Yermak (53%).
More often people expressed distrust than trust in Ruslan Stefanchuk (46% do not trust him, 25% trust him), Denys Shmyhal (44% and 36% respectively), Danylo Hetmantsev (29% and 18% respectively).