Why is support for Ukraine waning among eastern Europeans? | DW News 

Title says "eastern" but the speaker only mentions Hungary and Czech republic. Isn't this a too vague generalization? If you've interpreted the survey results to represent Eastern EU countries (which are quite different from one another), then why not generalize the result to all EU countries?! It's not like France or Germany are so different and don't have a percentage of their population complaining about energy prices.

Latvia/ Estonia/ Lithuania/ Poland/ UK unconditional support of Ukraine until the victory from the public and politicians. It is a hard winter, but that does not matter compared to what Ukrainians are going through to protect us all.

Estonians are supporting Ukraine no matter what🇪🇪❤🇺🇦

It’s not.

The choice is stark. Europe either hangs together for the long haul to fight for the values it says it believes in, and for which Ukraine is fighting and dying for every single day; or Europe gives way to Russian hegemony threatening its borders, coming closer to European homes. Decide what you want Europe. You will not get a second chance.

Ukraine still has my 100% support from Slovenija (my government is a different story)!

Hungary has a shot memory .I can remember Russian tanks entering the country .

Stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦

God bless those who are helping. One man's actions cause so much turmoil, pain, death

Support should remain strong, and become stronger. We're not the ones paying the ultimative price. ❤

It's not waning in eastern Europe, most people here understand that this war increases our overall security and independence

Natural with some exhausting but the world has changed and there is no wishful thinking that will just undo the situation....we have to support the prevailing of Ukraine and the defeat of Russia.

The EU people should watch documentaries to feel the suffering of the victims, and the older generation should tell the younger generation about the tyrants of war.

You’re biggest problem is support is drying up in the US

They can't afford it. - Simple

Glory, Victory, and Peace to Ukraine 🇬🇧

Give Ukraine what they need to win the war..............on their terms!

Europeans owe them penance for becoming too dependent on Russian gas. On top of that, Germany and France don’t want to drag things out, but in fact drag it out longer by delaying delivery of the military resources. Are people really willing to start buying Russian gas again?

If it were their country they would have a totally different attitude.

So some people are trifling bches? Grow a pair Europe! Glad some people are stepping up like Hagar. That lady has more balls then most in Europe. Grow a pair guys.

A study of the interviewed professor Hans sounds like more of a personal opinion than a quality study. Fellow Europeans, especially Western Europe, it is understandable that you might simply be to naive to perceive the cunning tenacity of the Russian Apparatus until it permeates your floor mats. Believe the worst that can happen, and make preparations so that it doesn't happen. As opposed to making do with imposed circumstances. Remember, the circumstances have been imposed to you by the Agressor!

I wish u all well. I hope this war will stop soonest

Win it and Finish it for good, thats the only LONG TERM ANSWER. Else it will come back AGAIN in some other form, at foot steps of Moldova, Romania and Poland.

There is overwhelming support for Ukraine in Europe. Taken from the description on this video, (if we assume it's an accurate survey) it says, "...A new study shows that just 40 percent of Europeans are in favor of supporting Ukraine, regardless of the price. Roughly the same number think support should be restricted..." The way I read that is 80% of Europeans are in support of assisting Ukraine, it's just that, some of them do believe there should be some restrictions on the support. The fact that 40% don't even care about the price tag at all, says a lot.

No retreat no surrender! All in for Ukranian victory!

If the last month showed us anything its that you cant reason with Pootin. And if we want to live in safety Ukraine must prevail.

People get bored when it starts to affect them personally, hypocrites usually.

Reluctance to help Ukrainians in the Czech Republic? Where did you get this BS?

From Canada with no support for ether side. But I am tired of inflated prices of food, fuel, and everything in between and millions of Canadian tax dollars being sent to support this war!!

The cost of this war is mounting. People are getting upset. Ultimately it is them that must help to pay these bills.

The govts need to do a better job of explaining why we need to help Ukraine. I know because I made my research and it's very obvious financially why it needs to happen and that we have to look at long term not for winter 2022. Mind you...personally and I hope for most...we want to do it because it's the right thing to do.

DW, you’re embarrassing yourself here.

Please, stay the course. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

The best help is stop the war through negotiations.

The more equipment we supply to Ukraine and the faster we do it the sooner this war will end. I'm tired of hearing Putin whine about his ''red lines''....Give Ukraine planes, tanks and everything else they need to defeat Putin.

So strange, first stat is >50, so it can be 99,80, 51 ore anything in beetween But other is exact 40%. This is very poor jurnalism.

The cost of living crisis is a separate issue from the genocide, ethnic cleansing and forced deportations of The Ukrainian civilian population. That never means that support for Ukraine is waning.

Im in sweden and here it feels is rock solid

I'm not sure what DW wants here. Everyone supports Ukraine but logistically yes long term plans need making. We can either house them long term or give them the weapons they need to expell Russia and rebuild. But no matter what we do need to support Ukraine.

The professor was relying less on facts and more on “consequences” 😂. Every other word is consequences. And if putin would take over Ukraine there would be NO consequences? Riiight.

Heike strong willed empathetic lady. You know people like this, other people follow, by example. Especially now DW have picked up on the 3 Ladies story.

Hungary, Czech Republic - Eastern Europe? Really?! More than 3 decades have passed since the collapse of the soviet union. When are we going to start geolocating Europe's countries by the actual place on the map...?

Waning?? Definitely not, at least not in Lithuania. Of course Hungarians.. ohh.. everyone's best European friend. Just please leave the EU and do your thing on your own as you clearly guys think differently then the whole club.

I didn't know Germany was in Eastern Europe, who would have thought?

Lets be LOGICAL here.. YOUR LOCAL PEOPLE are STARVING. How could you think that sending money and weapon to Ukrain will serve FOOD on the table of your people?? Thats insanity...

Do they prefer to let Russia advance?

This crisis was exactly what Germany needed from a demographic perspective. The young lady in the report will pick up German and then probably get an education and settle down there. Later on she will be working, paying taxes, and maybe having kids there.

It's time for peace talks for both countries or Europe will go bankrupt

"Good grief! Just surrender already! Life's getting hard! Oh and do you know *how* cold it is over *here*?" 🤣 But really... some people just have no idea of what's headed our way. And we'll just have to endure it. It's crunch time: it's time to see who learned their ww2 lessons.

Why don't the politicians hand their salaries and go there themselves to fight?

I'm sorry, but I'm interested in the cookies they were baking. I've never seen a cookie topped with meringue before going in the oven. This former pastry chef is intrigued.

To point out this again: this is not a war of Russia against Ukraine. It is the military physical assault of a dictatorship against people who want to live in a democracy. Every dictator believes in > whipping < people to be for, with, or under - them. And every democracy - even the very difficult ones with fatal 'illnesses' - declare and often sign legally in the human rights act: ''You can think, speak, do, what and how you want it, - ->> as long as you let everybody else have that freedom too. ( this the challenge for good, and the declaration of democracy and human rights in one). We know there is not place with big failure along. But in any democracy you as an individual you are still aloud to be angry, curse the government, explain your points - and regardless you are overall more safe and civil rights protected on that level than in any Dictatorship. Science also knows that Dictatorships are 'concepts' of 'taking' - revenge ideologies - that will always inevitably end with who can be found to revenge on. and dictatorships end with the end of what can be taken, because the targets are dead mor because the targets fight back. While democracies at least aim at 'making', communication before regulation, and that people shall have some appreciation to create after their own ideas. Short: people losing their lives in Ukraine do this for the better life they would have in a democracy, than the life-threatening existence in a dictatorship - like the current russian dictator. Dictatorships hate 'the west', hate they can not whip everybody to be under their control, where they could keep whipping them as they please, as all dictators evidently do, they so many people rather live in an imperfect difficult 'west' where their lives are still or safe and respected than under the declared dictators on this planet. Ukraine is not at war with Russia - and 'we' could or could not help, or there could be any negotiation that would end the particular war before the dictator's military act is completely expelled from what they invaded - Ukraine is not at war with Russia: Russia is openly attacking a democracy, and the democracy refuses to live under dictatorship. Ukraine is at the very front of this global showdown, the people of Iran for example are there two - all those people losing their lives to live in a more respected safe context like in a democracy. That is why this is not Ukraine's war - far away - but the war of each of us, who don't want to live a threatened life in a dictatorship. This conflict will not end into a better future unless the dictator is being shown he does not get a single inch in what he is doing, fully expelled from the neighbourhood nation, and it is not an attack on Ukraine, it is an attack on all of us on this planet. It's this time at this point where humanity needs to come clear how they think they are able to live here on this planet, and dictatorships against democratic orientated people in the world is the place of current war. Ukraine people, and others like people in Iran, are in the horrific situation to have to die for this every single day now. It is our war. We must do all we believe to believe in - and not dither, talking about 'negotiations', like about Crimea. There are negotiations if it is about saving life. This dictator has won if he can keep Crimea, and the 'west' has lost if he can keep any single inch of this country - and the next war with a dictatorship is due. In every news feature seem to be people again, who seem to be not fully clear about this, when they seem to include the option of negotiations. There are no negotiations. This not a film or a journalistic discussion feature. How many times does this need to be reminded of again? // Or are we wrong? If so: explain.

Well, if you continue to call nationals of the former Warsaw pact nations Eastern Europeans, you won't gain a lot of support for any cause. No matter whether it is support of Ukraine or anything else.

Ukraine has 100 % support from Norway. No matter how long it will take. Slava Ukraini!

Not true the support is very high. Those who are against the support of Ukraine, never supported them to begin with.

Bs, hungary didnt want to support Ukraine from the beginning and Germany is sending mixed signals all the time and is untrustworthy. Our support in Poland and Baltic States remains as strong as it was

I wouldn't say eastern Europe is waining and would call it as it is "Hungary and Chehz waining"

Why is support for Ukraine weakening? Because you can fool some people some of the time but you can't fool all the people all the time.

It kind of doesn't matter what people think, the government DOES want to support Ukraine and that means the support won't cease. Also I personally support Ukraine by donating to United24 (Organisation founded by Zelenksyy to kick Russian a$$)

Is Deutche 🇩🇪Welle trying to create division and narration of doubt ? Quite opposite , we should do even more to support Ukraine 🇺🇦.

It's really too late now to move away from this. We are too much involved to turn our backs and close the European borders. Backpedaling will be a sign of weakness...

Would this war finally end

The title shoud go : Why Germans project their doubts onto Eastern Europeans, whom they don't understand.

the problem is the weapons ukraine does not receive what it really needs the heavy weapons big missiles tungsten fragmentation on large scale and cluster munitions this will inflict extreme lose on rusia forces which most likely will end the war and there wont be any need to try to find them a place to live with a few tens billions from nato ukraine could start to rebuild in summer

100% support Ukraine for as long as it takes..Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

Well they can let Russia attack them if they prefer it that way.

You give support to those really in need not those pretend to be in need..

Americans are tired of sending billions to fix Europe's problems. Why can't you people pay your own way?

You have faced the plague, two world wars and countless tyrants. You europeans will endure and overcome this troubling situation. Best regards from Brasil. 🙏 And yes I’m also praying for solace and peace for my middle eastern and african brothers. You all deserve long and happy lives in peace. 😔

Majority of the world supports Russia 🇷🇺

Chekoslovakia is not supportive of Ukraine? I don't believe it. They should know better. Forgive my bad spelling but you chose the name, not me! Respect to the checks from UK.

I think we should support Ukraine regardless of the cost, if it was up to me the UK would have directly got involved in the war outside of NATO

If you help Ukraine in time of great need, then you will gain a most reliable and brave friends. EU alone can get nowhere.

Wrong title, it should be western Europe

Great you two are safe. Many thanks to your host❤

We need to do the right thing and that is helping ukraine however we can. if you have a just moral you simply know this.

Most people treat this war like a sports game or an election "Oh I support this team", "I support this party", "I support Ukraine". But support in the form of votes and likes and retweets don't win wars. If you ask people whether they support Ukraine, most will say yes, but if you ask them whether their government should raise taxes and use those money to help Ukraine most will say no. In reality, donating 10 Euros and tweeting about it is the extent of most people's support. And in that sense, most people don't support Ukraine at all.

Sorry, but where have you got your data about the Czech republic from?? As we have given 467.000 Visas, the highest amount in EU per capita, as we have 10,5 Million citizens only.. All kids are enrolled in schools, more than 80% of the adults are employed, we have given about 2,1 Billion Euros military support to this day, there are trainings of thousands UA soldiers, there are about 4000 UA experts into the czech military companies in the next few weeks coming, we are supplying them electricity and heat generators and so much more.. Are you reffering to the protest from September which demanded stop to all aid and direct talks with Russia over gas supplies?? As there were about 70.000 protesters, which makes not even 0,7% of the Czech population...

begging the question. who says European support is waning?

No,Europeans are not split in their support for Ukraine.The only two Orc supporters are Hungary and Serbia.

Split?!! What an absurd headline - full support!✊🇺🇦

Nato could increase its stockpile in current NATO states in Europe for it's security, instead of pouring all those money into a blackhole.

Ukraine receiving free money and weapons but for how long? Cut off the freebies to allow for certain peace negotiations

Putin must be jumping for joy hearing about this!

It's crazy 1 country in Russia is having this effect on an entire continent.

“Czech Republic and Hungary” is not exactly representative of the rest of the Europeans, especially Hungary. Could of started with that…

Mind Begs the Question: If deploying Weapons,Mercenaries At USA doorstep (Cuba) - Not Allowed At Russias doorstep (Ukraine) - Allowed Democracy,Imperialism?

Compared to what was spend on corona support, or even just energy support in Germany, the support given to Ukraine by Western EU countries is still quite small. The biggest impact is from increasing energy costs.

We have to remember that wasn't their choice; it's being imposed to ukrainians. If the companionship is good, doesn't matter whether they are family or not.

Maybe it's time for peace talks and compromise on both sides.

Zelinski need to be jailed

A lot of people that don't know real hardship complaining that they need to tough it up a little

It's remarkable how many of these problems are self-inflicted.

understandable. Most would love this war to end.

I'm reluctant to go Europe because of Ukraine

Average citizens do want cease-fire and peace. Politicians do want war and big business for military industry and reconstruction.

Hungary and Greece almost openly support Russia. Germany supports Ukraine with its mouth and Russia with action

If Ukraine is going to strike Russia deep in Russian Territory... Than I am also having second thoughts about me being FOR Ukraine. In the beginning I was very impressed by the Ukrainian resolve! Especially for showing solidarity towards captured Russian soldiers and wanting to give such captured Russian soldiers a second chance, many of which are now fighting FOR Ukraine instead! It was always about Ukraine to ONLY defend itself, NEVER to strike Russia deep inside Russia! But the latest war developments have been rather concerning. I Understand that they want to force Putin to the negotiation table... But striking Russia inside Russia??? I feel for the Ukrainian and Russian people who have to suffer at the hand of ONE crazy man and I hope and pray that this war will come to a conclusion soon!

The war, as any war, has had negative impact on the world, the global economy. Thus, no such a wonder why some people would have reluctance, that combined with the depiction of information, the conflicting reports of information.

Europe is firm in support for Ukraine. Do not for a moment think anything else