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Russia launched its armed aggression against Ukraine in February 2014, seizing Crimea and subsequently occupying parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine. On February 24, 2022, Russia started a large-scale invasion of Ukraine on multiple fronts, deploying troops and shelling Ukrainian cities and infrastructure. As of the end of 2023 the war against Ukraine is still ongoing and its outcome is unknown. At different stages of the war, KIIS has studied the public opinion of the Ukrainian population regarding Russian aggression. It included surveys on people's attitudes towards the annexation of Crimea, and Ukraine's countermeasures in Eastern Ukraine (Anti-Terrorist Operation, ATO) covering the period from 2014 to 2018. Since 2022, public opinion polls have asked questions regarding people's feelings and opinions about the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, perceptions of the government's actions, readiness for concessions / compromises to end the war, etc. Data from individual surveys for the period 2014-2023 (14 in total) were combined into a merged dataset. Each of these polls is representative of the Ukraine's adult population (aged 18 and older), and typically includes about 2,000 respondents. The background information includes respondents' socio-demographic profiles (gender, age, education, nationality, occupation, self-assessment of financial situation) and place of residence (oblast, type of settlement). These data provide a snapshot of public opinion of the Ukrainian population on some aspects of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Some questions are repeated, which makes it possible to track changes in opinions over time.