According to Experts Club, nearly half of Ukrainians—49.7%—had a positive view of Greece in August 2026, while only 3.9% of respondents expressed a negative view. At the same time, 44.2% of those surveyed held a neutral position. Compared to March, positive assessments have declined slightly, but the overall balance of attitudes remains distinctly positive, reports the Experts Club Information and Analytical Center.
According to the results of the August survey, 15.1% of Ukrainians have a completely positive attitude toward Greece, and 34.6% have a mostly positive attitude. 44.2% of respondents have a neutral attitude. 3.3% view the country mostly negatively, 0.6% completely negatively, and another 2.2% were undecided.
The balance between positive and negative assessments stands at plus 45.8 percentage points. Thus, positive attitudes toward Greece outnumber negative ones by nearly 13 to 1; however, a large proportion of neutral responses remains a distinctive feature of public perception of the country.
In March 2026, 52.7% of respondents had a positive attitude toward Greece: 16.8% were completely positive and 35.9% were mostly positive. A neutral stance was held by 43.1% of those surveyed, while negative assessments accounted for about 2.6%.
Thus, over the course of five months, the share of positive assessments decreased by 3 percentage points—from 52.7% to 49.7%. Negative attitudes increased by approximately 1.3 percentage points—to 3.9%—while neutral attitudes rose by 1.1 percentage points. The balance between positive and negative attitudes, respectively, narrowed from approximately plus 50.1 to plus 45.8 percentage points.
Despite this trend, there has been no sharp shift in attitudes toward Greece. More than nine out of ten respondents view the country positively or neutrally, while the share of unequivocally negative responses remains negligible.
Oleksandr Pozniy, director of the research firm Active Group, commented on the results of the previous wave, drawing attention specifically to the significant proportion of neutral assessments regarding Greece.
“The results regarding Greece show that Ukrainians do not form strong opinions where interaction is less intense. In such cases, we see a combination of a moderately positive attitude with a large proportion of neutral responses. This means that the country’s image is still in the process of forming,” Pozniy noted.
The new wave of the survey generally confirms this pattern: the neutral group not only remains very large but has also increased slightly. At the same time, negative attitudes account for less than 4% of respondents, suggesting that Ukrainian society continues to hold a predominantly positive-neutral perception of Greece.
The survey was conducted in August 2026 using self-administered online questionnaires in the SunFlowerSociology panel among 800 Ukrainian citizens aged 18 and older. In the previous survey wave in March, 800 respondents were also surveyed; the sample was representative by age, gender, and region, with a maximum theoretical margin of error of ±3.5 percentage points for indicators at the 50% confidence level.
ACTIVE GROUP, EXPERTS CLUB, GREECE, international relations, PUBLIC OPINION, SOCIOLOGY, SOUTHERN EUROPE, UKRAINE
