71% of Ukrainians speak the state language at home - survey

This is evidenced by the results of a survey by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Razumkov Centre.

According to the results, the number of citizens communicating in Ukrainian was 71 per cent. This is 7% more than in 2021. Then the figure was 64%.

At the same time, the level of Russian language use decreased by almost 10%.

Such dynamics are a consequence of both the effect of symbolic rejection and partly the impossibility to conduct public opinion surveys in the occupied and frontline territories of the South and East, the authors of the study note.

There is also a difference in language practices among residents of different types of settlements. In particular, in the cities of Southern and Eastern Ukraine, Russian is still common in everyday communication - namely 59% communicate in Russian, while residents of settlements and villages are mostly Ukrainian-speaking.

The survey was conducted from December 13 to 21, 2022. The face-to-face method was conducted in: Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, and Chernivtsi regions (Western macroregion); Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Chernihiv regions, as well as in the city of Kyiv (Central macroregion), Mykolaiv, Kherson and Odesa regions (Southern macroregion); Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv regions (Eastern macroregion).