stain on the soul of america. russia is not achieving its strategic objectives. russia tried to deny any enlargement of nato. the social democratic party has concluded that sweden should join nato. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa suarez. welcome to the show, everyone, it is monday, may 16th. we begin with the consequences of russia s war on ukraine. finland and sweden have announced they intend to join nato, reverse ago neutral stance held by the two nations for decades and really paving the way for major expansion of nato s military alliance directly on russia s doorstep. now, what you are looking at right now, a live images coming to us from helsinki in finland where finnish lawmakers are gathered to consider the issue. swedishish use are set to do the same in 30 minutes or so both parliaments are widely expected to endorse the decisions, from there nato says the approval process could move very quickly. finland s acceptance would also double r
Residence in helsinki, he s meeting with senator mitch mcconnell, senator susan reed, a couple of other u.s. senators here expected to make a few comments shortly. obviously the finnish president has been buoyed by the support that his country is getting from all nato members, the only wrinkle so far president erdogan of turkey indicating that he is not lookinininpotive upon the possible membership of finland in nato but nato s secretary general said very clearly he expects these issues to be tidied up. how long the whole process takes, a matter of months, hard to pin it down because everything goes before national parliaments. this is, though, as you say, a historic moment, a geopolitical shift of magnitude caused by president putin. nic robertson, as soon as we hear mitch mcconnell the senate republican leader we shall bring that to our viewers, nic
Republic supplied hundreds of tanks to the ukrainians to fight the russians, so putin watches now the czech republic, stepping up and taking their place where he d rather his representatives were. nic robertson in helsinki, thank you for your reporting. in russia the kremlin s crackdown on any negative news coverage of the war didn t stop two reporters from taking a stand. they posted pieces on a pro-kremlin website, filling it with messages like as vladimir putin lied about russia s plans in ukraine and putin unleashed one of the gladdiest wars of the twenty-first century, a couple quotes from this post, anchor of reliable sources brian stelter is with us now. it s pretty striking given what we know of is happening in russia when it comes to the crackdown and flow of information. a shocking breach of the pro kremlin line. it was posted by business
Just say watchathon into your voice remote to watch now. g7 nations have committed to ban oil imports from russia. the latest move by the west to put pressure on russian president putin for the war in ukraine. cnn has reporters around the globe bringing you the latest developments, starting with nic robertson in finland. i m nic robertson in helsinki, the g7 leaders have agreed to end russian oil imports in a timely and orderly way. no hard fixed date, but that commitment clear. they ve also made commitments to counter russian disinformation, to hold russian officials accountable for the killing of
And the sea change was almost instantaneous after russia invaded ukraine. prior, there had been tepid support for nato. the sense that finland, very much aligned with the west, but had this nonaligned position historically and nato was good, but it took really russia s invasion of ukraine to tip that tepid support from 20%, 30% of the population to where it is now, somewhere between 60%, 80% support in the population. so russia s invasion really propelled finland towards nato leadership. we ll get a definitive answer in a few days. appreciate your insights. nic robertson in helsinki, thanks so much. u.s. first lady jill biden is meeting with ukrainian refugees in slovakia as part of a four-day tour. saturday she visited a school in