Ukraine is applying for membership in the European Union. What will that do?

Things are escalating in Ukraine.

The Kremlin ramped up shelling against several cities – including its second-largest, Kharkiv.

There, at least twenty people were injured after a bomb hit its city center – known as Freedom Square – just a few hours after curfew lifted.

It was an attack Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky alluded to in a speech he gave this morning to the European Parliament.

Zelensky’s speech came one day after filing for “immediate” admission to the European Union.

Could he get it? And if he does – what would that mean?