KIEV, Oct 16 - Kiev's proposal to use Ukrainian radar stations in the new U.S. missile defense architecture is a normal thing, said Ukraine's First Deputy Presidential Secretariat Chief and former defense minister Yuriy Yekhanurov.

"We have capabilities and we want to offer them, and if Russia refused from them and does not want to pay, then maybe someone else will," Yekhanurov said on Channel 5 on Thursday evening, adding that in this matter Ukraine "must have a pragmatic choice."