By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness - Nearly eleven months ago, in August 2023, the New York Times reported that U.S. officials had estimated that some 500,000 Russians and Ukrainians had been killed, wounded, or missing in the then 18-month Ukrainian War... Both Russia and Ukraine underreport their losses.. In the West, the mere mention of a negotiated settlement is considered a dangerous appeasement of Russia’s flagrant aggression.