Some 44% of respondents believe that the most effective way to bring down public tensions is to launch actual criminal investigations into corruption among the country's top leadership.
A total of 92% of Ukrainians assess the political situation in the country as tense or critical.
According to the survey by the Rating sociological group conducted Dec 12-28, 2017, some 33% of respondents assess the political situation in the country as critical, 59% call it tense, and only 3% believe it is calm.
The poll also showed that a high level of tension in internal politics is reported throughout the country.
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The survey was conducted via interviews among the population aged 18 and older. The sample is representative of age, sex, region and type of settlement. A total of 30,000 respondents (1,200 in each region) were interviewed by a face-to-face method. The poll's error margin is under 0.6%.