Anyone who was even remotely paying attention knew that if former President Donald Trump got elected on Nov. 5, a ceasefire in Ukraine would soon follow. Trump of course was elected, and thankfully, that ceasefire is now on its way.

But it is a ceasefire that is tragically coming more than two years too late. In September, The Wall Street Journal ran a piece titled, “One Million Are Now Dead or Injured in the Russia-Ukraine War.” An obscene figure the Pentagon has echoed.

If one were to extrapolate from that number from the time a ceasefire was first advanced — and mysteriously scuttled — 32 months ago, then one could estimate that this ceasefire will come too late to save an additional 750,000 soldiers and innocent men, women and children killed or wounded in that gruesome war.

One story of the "scuttled" and “sabotaged” ceasefire negotiations between Ukraine and Russia ran in The Guardian in April of this year under the headline: “Did Boris Johnson really sabotage peace talks between Russia and Ukraine? The reality is more complicated.”

The article highlights the “poorly understood but consequential peace negotiations that played out between Russia and Ukraine in the spring of 2022 over ending the conflict. These negotiations — held predominantly in Istanbul — have become a focus for critics of the war in the US, who often argue that the west, and particularly then British prime minister, Boris Johnson, sabotaged these negotiations and prevented a successful ceasefire. Vladimir........

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