Antony Blinken's Nordic Trip Addresses Ukraine War and NATO Expansion.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking from Finland, said that strengthening Ukraine's defenses against Russia was a "prerequisite" for diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine and warned against the allure of short-term cease-fires that might play to Moscow's military advantage. Russia targeted Ukraine overnight into Friday with three dozen missiles and drones, many of them aimed at Kyiv, the Ukrainian military and local officials said, continuing a monthlong campaign that has terrorized the capital's residents and tested the limits of Ukrainian air defense systems. The United States announced Thursday that it would stop providing key information about its nuclear arms to Russia, in retaliation for Moscow's decision to withdraw from the New START treaty.