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Since the early 1990s, KIIS has systematically polled the question "How would you like to see Ukraine's relations with Russia?" to estimate Ukrainian preferences regarding these relations. The answer options provided to respondents were: "They should be the same as with other states - with closed borders, visas, customs"; "Ukraine and Russia should be independent but friendly states - with open borders, no visas, and no customs"; "Ukraine and Russia should unite into one state." Each survey wave was carried out on a sample representative of the Ukraine's adult population (aged 18 and older), with an average sample size of about 2,000 respondents. To facilitate analysis, the results of the individual survey waves from 1993 to 2023 were merged into a single dataset, including 82 polls with a total of 166,314 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 enable tracking Ukrainian public opinion on what the relationship between the Ukraine and Russia should be like, from Ukraine's independence to the 2023, both among the population as a whole and among its different subpopulations.