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Peace will come to Ukraine, but how and when? Fourteen months after Russia's invasion and nine years after their occupation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, the largest European conflict since Hitler's 1939 invasion of Poland is an intractable tragedy destroying two societies. The horrific loss of soldiers on both sides continues. In Ukraine civilians are in danger in war zones and from targeted attacks throughout the country.

Look to AP – Associated Press – or other analyses to learn of the probably over 70,000 Russian-side combat deaths and perhaps 250,000 total casualties—personnel wounded,...