Few sights are as revolting as Ukrainian politicians who make friendly visits to the Kremlin in the midst of Russia’s war against Ukraine. On March 10, a group of Ukrainian lawmakers from the pro-Russian Opposition Platform party visited Moscow. The group included people like Vadym Rabinovich, an expressive politician who lives on Ukrainian television, and Rinat Kuzmin, a disgraced ex-deputy prosecutor general.

Leading them was none other than Viktor Medvedchuk, the Prince of Darkness, a personal friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his unofficial representative in Ukraine. The group met with their counterparts in the Russian parliament, and Medvedchuk met with Putin separately. The Ukrainian lawmakers claimed they went to Moscow to discuss the “ways to achieve peace” in the Donbas, where Russia has been waging a proxy war against Ukraine for six years.