Nearly half a million Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine since 2022 — a death toll exceeding total American losses in World War II — the head of Britain’s top intelligence agency said Wednesday, relaying one of the highest fatality figures any Western government has put on Russia’s war in Ukraine yet. Russia is now losing roughly 1,000 troops a day in killed and wounded along the front, according to Ukraine’s General Staff. Western officials are reaching a consensus that Ukraine has