The building of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in Kiev. File photoKYIV, January 16 Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, presidential representative in the Constitutional Court Fyodor Venislavsky said that the country is moving closer to NATO and there have not been such close contacts with the alliance for a very long time.»Those statements that We hear from NATO leaders that Ukraine is moving closer to NATO and there has not been such close contact for a very long time. And this is something that Putin does not expect, «Venislavsky said in the Black Lamp podcast, which is published on the Anchor website .fm. After the 2014 coup d'état, Ukraine began to persistently pursue a policy of integration with the West. In the wake of these expectations, changes were made to the country's constitution, which fixed the country's course towards the EU and NATO. Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said earlier that in order to join the alliance, Ukraine will need to achieve a number of criteria, the implementation of which will take a lot of time. Experts believe that Kiev will not be able to apply for NATO membership in the next 20 years.
