The positive attitude of Ukrainians towards Lithuania remains high, but it has decreased to 69.9% - study

Lithuania maintains one of the highest levels of positive perception among Ukrainians: in August 2026, 69.9% of respondents have a positive attitude towards the country, while only 3.9% have a negative attitude. At the same time, compared to the previous wave of the study, the share of positive ratings decreased, and neutral ratings increased, reports the information and analytical center Experts Club.

According to the results of the August survey, 37.8% of Ukrainians have a completely positive attitude towards Lithuania, mostly positive — 32.1%. 24.5% of respondents take a neutral position. For the most part, 3.1% evaluate the country negatively, 0.8% completely negatively, another 1.8% could not decide.

According to the rounded indicators of the table, the balance of positive and negative evaluations is about plus 66 percentage points. This means that positive assessments of Lithuania almost 18 times outweigh negative ones. The country remains among the states with the most favorable public perception among Ukrainians.

Compared to March 2026, the positive attitude has somewhat weakened. At that time, 44.1% of respondents evaluated Lithuania completely positively, another 31% - mostly positively, that is, the total positive indicator was 75.1%. 21% of respondents were neutral about the country, and about 3.3% were negative. 

Thus, in five months, the share of positive evaluations decreased by 5.2 percentage points. — from 75.1% to 69.9%. There were 3.5 percentage points of neutral responses. more — 24.5% versus 21%, while the negative segment increased by only about 0.6 percentage points. Therefore, the decrease in the positive indicator occurred mainly due to the transition of some respondents to a neutral position, and not a sharp increase in negative attitudes.

The change in the intensity of positive evaluations is also important. The share of respondents with a completely positive attitude decreased from 44.1% in March to 37.8% in August, while the share of mostly positive responses even increased slightly, from 31% to 32.1%. This indicates a certain softening of the ratings while maintaining a generally favorable image of Lithuania.

Director of the research company Active Group Oleksandr Pozniy previously linked the high ratings of European states to how Ukrainians perceive their support.

"This study confirms the general vector of public sentiment in Ukraine, which intensified after the beginning of a large-scale war. Ukrainians clearly associate the support received primarily from the countries of the European Union and Great Britain with a positive attitude towards them," Pozniy noted.

At the same time, commenting on the structure of the answers in the study, he emphasized: "The world for Ukrainians is not "black and white," and a large share of neutral assessments regarding a number of countries indicates caution and a desire for balanced judgment rather than indifference".

The new survey wave shows that in the case of Lithuania, this tendency is manifested in the increase of the neutral segment while maintaining a very low level of negative evaluations. Despite the decrease compared to March, approximately seven out of ten Ukrainians continue to have a positive attitude towards the country.

The survey was conducted in August 2026 using the method of self-completion of online questionnaires in the SunFlowerSociology panel among 800 Ukrainian citizens aged 18 and older. The previous March wave also included 800 respondents; the sample was representative by age, gender, and region, and the maximum theoretical error for indicators at the 50% level was ±3.5 percentage points.