How UNIAN correspondent, he said this on the air of "Shuster Live", answering the question whether there is now urgent for Ukraine, the issue of NATO.
"Russia is very afraid of Ukraine's joining NATO. It is for them one of phobias. At the same time, it is the Russian Federation for their aggression, their actions, their armies, which are constantly on the border with our country, persistently pushing Ukraine into NATO", - said the speaker.
So, according to him, if Russia continues to work in that direction", he "does not exclude that it will happen."
It is due to the aggression of Russia the number of people who support the fact that Ukraine joined NATO in order to have the protection of its borders through a collective say, unification of efforts of not just one country, and powerful countries, as it occurs in this unit (in the NATO - UNIAN), is pushing people to support this choice of Ukraine", - said Turchynov.