He met with representatives of Svoboda's Italian counterpart, the Forza Nuova, discussing cooperation regarding the "preservation of each country's national identity" in October 2013.

[1] Mokhnyk has been described as Tiagnybok's "right hand man in parliament", who sees "Russia as Ukraine’s main foreign enemy, seeking to oppress Ukrainians, control their riches, and sabotage EU integration".

He has said that Ukraine's internal enemies are an "oligarchic class composed of former Communist apparatchiks, Komsomol leaders, KGB agents and straight forward criminals of primarily non-Ukrainian ethnic descent".

He supports banning Communist party members, former Soviet apparatchiks and KGB agents from holding office.

[2] In the Yatsenyuk Government that came to power on 27 February 2014, Mokhnyk was Minister of Environment and Natural Resources.