Civil Network OPORA conducted a large-scale sociological study "Democracy, Rights and Freedoms of Citizens and Media Consumption in Conditions of War" in July 2022.

Ukrainians consider the rights and interests of citizens to be important, but at the same time they prefer a strong state and do not see timely and democratic elections as a priority after the suspension of martial law. However, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation, media consumption habits among Ukrainians have changed significantly: the majority get their news from online sources, in particular, social networks and messengers. This is evidenced by the dat...

For the majority of Ukrainians, social networks became the main source of thews about the war—76.6 of the respondents use them for getting information. The most popual networks are Telegram, YouTube, and Facebook. At the same time, Viber as a source of information is used mostly by the middle-age users, Twitter is popular among the youth, and TikTok found its niche amonf the respondents aged 60-69.

Ukrainians have the greatest confidence in television, social networks and the Internet. This is the data of the poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology from May, 3 to 26, commissioned by OPORA.