The political parties of Opposition Bloc, Peace and Development, Ours (Nashi), Vidrodzhennia and Trust Deeds (Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov's Doviryay Dilam) have agreed to unite to jointly participate in the snap elections to the Verkhovna Rada, said Oleksandr Vilkul, the deputy head of the Opposition Bloc parliamentary faction.

"We have united! The Opposition Bloc, the Party of Peace and Development, Ours (Nashi), Vidrodzhennia and Trust Deeds. We run in the elections together to restore peace, economy and return welfare to people. We will carry out real decentralization and cancel the anti-popular 'reforms.' Only we can implement it," Vilkul wrote on Facebook on Friday afternoon.

The parties signed a memorandum of unification in Kyiv on Friday.

When asked about the principles of forming a party list and what the name of the union will be, leader of the Opposition Bloc faction in the Rada Vadym Novinsky said: "You will hear this on Sunday, at the congress of our united political force."

Novinsky also said that peace in Ukraine is "the number one task" for the union.

"Direct negotiations, reasonable compromises in compliance with the national interests of Ukraine and the full implementation of the Minsk agreements are our way to peace. But peace is not only stopping the war in Donbas, peace is needed between Ukrainians, without dividing into right and wrong language, culture, faith of history. Without dividing Ukraine into the west and the east, the north and the south ... For the sake of such peace, we are united today," the politician said.