Immediately after Finland became the 31st member of NATO on the military alliance’s 74th anniversary during an April 4 ceremony in Brussels, ministers convened to discuss the pending admission of Ukraine into NATO as it fights off Russia’s February 2022 invasion.
While no action is imminent on Ukraine’s request—to which NATO allies in 2008 pledged that it would eventually become an alliance member—the embattled nation should be enrolled quickly, even before it’s accepted into the European Union (EU), several panelists stated during a four-hour Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) forum in Washington on April 5.
