“If the Zelensky team is going to demonstrate its commitment to the Minsk agreements only because sanctions against Russia are tied to them, then I think that we will not go far on the path to peace,” he wrote on Twitter.

Earlier, Medvedchuk said his party would be the main opposition force in the Ukrainian parliament.

Member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Anton Morozov, in an interview with Nation News, said that on the settlement in the Donbas, the Ukrainian president should appeal not to Russia, but to the administration of Donetsk and Luhansk.