Finland's President Alexander Stubb said some of the discussion around the notion that Russia is winning the war in Ukraine has left him "a bit baffled" because Russian President Vladimir Putin has "failed in every and each one of his strategic aims." In the initial weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, its forces sought to take control of Kyiv and remove the pro-West Zelensky government from power, effectively returning the country to Moscow’s sphere of influence—an objective that