Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Viacheslav Kyrylenko has wished for President Volodymyr Zelenskiy not to seek new ‘Kharkiv accords’ with Russia.
“Attended the inaugural show. And on the day when the newly-elected president is in the heyday of his glory, I would like to wish him three things: not to seek new Kharkiv accords with Russia, not to sign new enslaving contracts with Gazprom, and not to be afraid of the Ukrainian language. On the contrary: love and support it,” Kyrylenko wrote on Twitter on Monday.
Zelenskiy was sworn in as president of Ukraine at a ceremony at the Verkhovna Rada on Monday morning. He announced in his address to the nation that he was dissolving the current Verkhovna Rada and proposed that the government resign.
The Kharkiv accords were a 2010 treaty between Ukraine and Russia, under which the Russia’s lease on naval bases in Crimea was extended beyond 2017 until 2042 in exchange for a discounted contract for natural gas deliveries from Russia to Ukraine. Russia terminated the treaty unilaterally in 2014.
