Mykola Tomenko, a member of the opposition Batkivschyna party’s parliamentary faction, has demanded that President Viktor Yanukovych make public the text of a strategic agreement with Russia that he reportedly signed at negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on Friday.

“This document needs at least to be publicized first, and therefore I have addressed the president with the demand that he present this text so that it can be examined. Second, it has yet to be understood whether the document has been signed in the form of an international treaty. And if this is so, it will have to be ratified by the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada,” Tomenko said at public hearings in Kaniv, the Cherkasy region, when asked to comment on reports that Yanukovych had signed a strategic agreement with Russia, which includes Ukraine’s obligation to join the Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian Customs Union.