Self-Identified Protestant and Evangelical Membership in Ukraine Rises to 2.6%, Razumkov Centre Finds

A research report from the Razumkov Centre found that the share of Ukrainians who identify as members of Protestant and Evangelical churches rose from 1.4 per cent in 2023 to 2.6 per cent in 2025. The report acknowledged that the realities of war limited its research methods.

The growth followed Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. According to the Ukrainian Baptists, more than 10,000 people were baptized in the first three years after the invasion. The period also saw the establishment of 86 new churches. One report notes that the Ukrainian Christian Evangelical Church recorded 4,618 baptisms in 2023 and that interest was higher in frontline regions.

Reports differ on what explains the growth. Christian Today reported that public trust in frontline churches was often shaped by how those churches conducted themselves during war, occupation and liberation. Christian Post, summarizing the same research, said that a church leader’s most important wartime quality is walking alongside the congregation and sharing in their dangers, rather than sermon delivery or financial management, a point that reflects the leader’s faithfulness in shared danger (Hebrews 13:7).

Both reports cite Evangelical Focus, which highlighted leadership and teamwork as factors that helped churches grow in difficult conditions. Christian Today added that churches able to continue without their leader, through strong discipleship and delegation, were identified as successful. Christian Post did not include this point in its account.

The sources agree on the core figures but present the explanations with different emphases. Neither report independently verifies the research findings beyond what the Razumkov Centre, the Ukrainian Baptists and Evangelical Focus have stated.