What has changed from 2016 to 2019? Five years after the onset of the war in eastern Ukraine, access to information from the war zone remains scarce, including about the daily lives, perceptions, and identities of the remaining resident population. In particular the non-government—controlled territories—the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk (DNR and LNR)—tend to remain beyond the reach of policymakers and researchers. Principal investigator Prof. Dr. Gwendolyn Sasse about a new ZOiS report which examines changes in public opinion in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, including the government- and non-government-controlled areas.