CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten on Monday said Ukrainians have shown “absolutely major” shifts in their views toward Russia’s war on the country.
Enten, in a segment that aired prior to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s White House talks with President Donald Trump and European leaders, tossed to a Gallup poll conducted in early July that found a majority of Ukrainians (69%) want a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible.
Enten said that figure has gone “through the roof” since 2022 when, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Gallup found that just 22% of Ukrainians wanted a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible (compared to 73% of those who looked to fight until a victory).
“The idea that Ukraine is going to achieve complete victory, that idea has collapsed within Ukrainian society,” declared Enten in a segment with CNN’s John Berman.
He noted that a negotiated end to the war ASAP is a “bit more nuanced” as Ukrainians don’t want to agree to “all of Russia’s demands.”
