As Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke on Friday in the capital of NATO's newest member, Finland, he made the case for sustained Western aid to Ukraine and warned against the allure of cease-fires that might play into Russian hands.In an address at Helsinki's City Hall that was billed as an important overview of Washington's thinking about the war in Ukraine, Mr. Blinken also cataloged what he called the many strategic failures that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has suffered since launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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