Russia's Petrol Crisis and What It Means for Ukraine
Pollsters said Putin’s support fell as fuel shortages topped public concerns for a second straight week.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin's approval rating fell 5 percentage points to 66% in a single week, marking the steepest weekly decline since Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine began, according to The Public Opinion Foundation.
- Agentstvo noted that deteriorating economic sentiment and fuel shortages, cited by 19% of respondents as the country's most important issue, are driving the decline in Putin's support.
- FOM polling showed trust in the Russian president falling from 69 percent to 67 percent, while disapproval of Putin's performance reached 16%, the highest level recorded since the invasion began.
- Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin saw his approval rating drop 3 percentage points to 49%, while public assessment of the government's performance fell 4 percentage points to 41%.
- The Russian polling organizations FOM and VTsIOM began recording these declines in spring 2026, attributing the falling numbers in part to internet restrictions and the blocking of Telegram.
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Putin’s Approval Just Took Its Steepest One-Week Dive in Nearly Four Years — and the Bad News Comes From the Kremlin’s Own Pollsters
Putin’s Approval Rating Sees Big Weekly Fall: Russian President Vladimir Putin is feeling the pressure of Ukraine’s long-range strikes, having seen his steepest weekly decline in public approval since he launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The shock news for the Russian leader comes from polling conducted by two state-linked survey groups, with analysts pointing to the worsening fuel crisis and poor economic conditions as the ma…
Russian President Vladimir Putin's approval rate recorded the fastest weekly decrease in 2022, according to data from surveys conducted by two important Russian state-affiliated organizations, Kyiv Post reports.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's popularity has fallen by five percentage points in just one week, according to a survey by FOM, one of the largest and oldest sociological and polling organizations in Russia, which is closely linked to the Kremlin and the presidential office.
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