🇺🇦🇷🇺⚰️📃 — 📰 New York Times: Troop Deaths and Injuries in Ukraine War Near 500,000, U.S. Officials Say

— "The total number of Ukrainian and Russian troops killed or wounded since the war in Ukraine began 18 months ago is nearing 500,000, U.S. officials said, a staggering toll as Russia assaults its next-door neighbor and tries to seize more territory.

The officials cautioned that casualty figures remained difficult to estimate because Moscow is believed to routinely undercount its war dead and injured, and Kyiv does not disclose official figures. But they said the slaughter intensified this year in eastern Ukraine and has continued at a steady clip as a nearly three-month-old counteroffensive drags on."

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚰️📃 — 📰 NYT: "Russia’s military casualties, the [US] officials said, are approaching 300,000.

The number includes as many as 120,000 deaths and 170,000 to 180,000 injured troops.
The Russian numbers dwarf the Ukrainian figures, which the [US] officials put at close to 70,000 killed and 100,000 to 120,000 wounded.

But Russians outnumber Ukrainians on the battlefield almost three to one, and Russia has a larger population from which to replenish its ranks."

https://archive.is/s0di4

🇷🇺🇺🇦📊 — 📰 NYT: Ukraine has around 500,000 troops, including active-duty, reserve and paramilitary troops, according to analysts. By contrast, Russia has almost triple that number, with 1,330,000 active-duty, reserve and paramilitary troops — most of the latter from the Wagner Group.

https://archive.is/s0di4

In other words, Russia has almost 3x more soldiers than Ukraine (despite all the mobilization waves)

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🌍❌🇳🇪❗️ — ECOWAS: We already agreed on what would be required for any intervention in Niger

🌍❌🇳🇪❗️ — ECOWAS: We are ready to intervene in Niger whenever the order is given

🌍❌🇳🇪❗️ — ECOWAS: “D-day” of military intervention in Niger has been decided, but we are not disclosing when that is

🌍❌🇳🇪❗️ — ECOWAS: The West African Armies are just awaiting orders to start the military intervention in Niger

🌍🇳🇪🕊❌ — ECOWAS: The military option is not our preferred option, but we are being obliged to do it because of the intransigence of the Niger junta

🌍❌🇳🇪❗️— ECOWAS: We demand to the Niger illegal Junta the immediate release of President Bazoum and his family or face consequences