Ukraine is seeking urgent EU membership, as a form of solidarity from the European countries. President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the request today, and addressed it to France, which holds the rotating EU Presidency, and the heads of the three top EU institutions.

Zelensky signed the application in a barricaded room, apparently somewhere in the besieged Kiev. The EU aligning its foreign policy to suppport Ukraine, and is requesting the same from EU candidate countries.