nic robertson, cnn, helsinki, finland. joining me from helsinki now is the chairman of the defense committee in the finnish parliament. thank you so much for joining us. no moves have actually been made yet. i know your prime minister and president have said that they want to expedite this membership. it has to go through the parliament first. so are you confident that the parliament will next week approve this application to nato? yes, because we have statement statements from the president and the prime minister. next president and prime minister approve for the proposal of nato members probably on sunday. the parliament will discuss the matter and vote on it on monday or tuesday. when we can hopefully send our membership application to nato headquarters in brussels. so when would you be a member of nato, would it be a matter of
the coming weeks. obviously ultimate membership takes years but there are negotiations and announcements you can make in the meantime. indeed. ukraine submitted its membership application on the 5th day of the war and the eu executive, the european commission has started working on its analysis, on its opinion as requested by eu member states. this work focuses on whether ukraine fulfills the two basic criteria for eu membership, functioning democracy and functioning market economy. we intend to be ready with this work by june and then again it
their response. natasha? reporter: yeah, hala. so, president zelenskyy today is expected to reiterate the message he has been sending the last few weeks and months, which is that ukraine wants to be a member of the european union and, of course, a couple weeks ago we saw that zelenskyy filled out a formal application to become a member. the european union have met on that last week over two days, and they decided to not actually fast track that e.u. membership application as zelenskyy had wanted. obviously he has been disappointed. the country feels at this moment that it would be very, very important for them to be a member of the e.u., if not only symbolically because of the message that it would send to russia during this war, but the e.u. has said, look, we can t fast track this right now. this is not a process we really have in place. and it s not really a priority for us at this point. we believe that the priority is to give you the lethal aid and humanitarian assistance that y
washington to respond to the war in ukraine in the aftermath of roughly $14 billion that has already been approved to help with aid to ukraine. in addition to that, additional action, rebuking russia for its aggression in ukraine, much more is almost certain to come, but this is a start of what s expected to be an escalating series of steps to push back against russia. guys? seeing that rare bipartisan support, all right. manu, thank you very much. let s dig deeper now with ed arnold, research fellow at the royal united services institute and retired u.s. air force colonel cedric leighton. good morning to both of you. ed, i want to start with you. president zelenskyy is calling on the european union to do more for ukraine after refusing to fast track ukraine s membership application to the eu. that s something that can take years. it s a very lengthy process. what do you suspect happens next
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