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full title "Half of Russians say it would be right to use military force to keep Ukraine out of NATO"
Most relevant here is the date: Feb 23.

Wow, I am surprised that 30% of Ukrainians supported Russian use of military force to stop them from joining NATO. That's bonkers, who could possibly want that? I can't imagine even Russians in Ukraine wanting that.

As such, I find this poll hard to believe.

> Wow, I am surprised that 30% of Ukrainians supported Russian use of military force to stop them from joining NATO

13%. 17% didn't know, 70% said no.

Uh, how is the cnn publication date relevant? The important dates are given later:

> The survey, of more than 1,000 people in each country, was carried out online from February 7 to 15

Since learning about it being done (occasionally?), one thing I wish pollsters would do is publish some sort of figure of merit for how well their reweighing scheme works. For example if this poll had a control question about where they voted in the last election you could see if the sample would predict anything close to the actual number of votes cast (maybe not that straightforward to get reliable numbers for Russian elections though).