Over 60% of the population of Ukraine as a whole is against NATO membership, and in the east it's probably close to 90%. The thing is that the Ukrainian government is currently dominated by the western (largely rural) Galician region, which is extremely atypical for Ukraine.
--- On Mon, 9/1/08, Dmytri Kleiner <dk at telekommunisten.net> wrote:
> SEVASTOPOL, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - The crew of U.S.
> Coast Guard Cutter
> Dallas, which arrived on Monday morning at the Ukrainian
> port of Sevastopol
> where Russia has a naval base, has refused to go ashore
> amid anti-NATO
> protests, customs officers said.
>