“This, of course, is confiscation,” the Ukrainian News agency quoted the official as saying.

According to him, the government should establish monitoring and rules of the game in such a way as to more widely apply this mechanism.

Milovanov noted that Ukraine respects its international partners, but must protect sovereignty.

Earlier, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky instructed to introduce into the Verkhovna Rada a bill on the agricultural land market and lift the moratorium on the sale of land.

He assured that only Ukrainian citizens and companies will be able to buy land.