MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army and now Ukraine's ambassador to the United Kingdom Valery Zaluzhny and former Defense Minister Mikhail Fyodorov are the most trusted politicians in Ukraine, according to a new poll by the Rating Sociological Group.
According to the survey, Zaluzhny enjoyed the highest level of public trust, with 70% of respondents expressing confidence in him, followed by Fyodorov at 65%. Trust in the former defense minister almost doubled over the past week, rising from 35% to 65%. Head of Vladimir Zelensky's office Kirill Budanov (designated as a terrorist and extremist by Russia) also enjoyed a high level of public trust. Zelensky ranked fourth in the trust ratings at 59%.
Former Ukrainian armed forces commander-in-chief Alexander Syrsky, whom Zelensky dismissed yesterday, received one of the lowest trust ratings in the survey. Trust in Syrsky fell from 39% to 23% over the past week. Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko (listed by Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service as a person involved in extremist activity or terrorism) received an even lower rating, with 21% of respondents expressing trust in him.
The survey was conducted on July 20-21 using computer-assisted telephone interviews and included 1,000 respondents aged 18 and older. The margin of error did not exceed 3.1%.
