WATCH: Russian FPV drone pursuing and attacking a civilian man on a street in Sumy, Ukraine.

Channel
BRICS News Today
@BricsNews_tg
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Cite this entry
454subscribers
-10 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002641199893 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @BricsNews_tg |
| Created | Between 1 March 2025 and 31 July 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 8 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 8 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/BricsNews_tg |
Topic
International news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 21 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 92% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Oct 2026, 19:38 | 454 | -3 |
| 28 Sept 2026, 04:01 | 457 | -1 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 01:58 | 458 | +1 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 11:17 | 457 | -2 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 03:34 | 459 | -4 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 03:08 | 463 | -1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 04:48 | 464 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 16:24 | 464 | first reading |
Engagement
19 posts held, back to 29 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 19 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
- Video runtime
- 3m 25s
- Average length
- 29s
Measured directly from 7 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Recent posts
CIA Launches Secret Cuba Task Force to Fracture Political Elite Central Intelligence Agency quietly established a specialized task force targeting Cuba, aiming to leverage financial and cyber resources to foster divisions among Havana’s political elite.
Syrian Army Appoints Turkish Citizen to Command 62nd Division Damascus has appointed a Turkish citizen to command the Syrian Army’s 62nd Division as part of a sweeping military restructuring.
Ukraine’s Air Defense Pleas Fall Flat as Western Allies Hoard Interceptor Missiles Ukrainian appeals for critical air defense systems are faltering as Western allies, prioritizing their own security, are increasingly reluctant to give away missiles.
The Washington Post reports that the U.S. fired more than 1,300 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles during the opening weeks of the Iran conflict. According to unnamed U.S. officials cited by the newspaper, the heavy use has left the ATACMS stockpile "basically" exhausted, with virtually none remaining.
Russia has destroyed over 400,000 square meters of Ukrainian warehouses and logistics complexes since the start of July 2026. Named victims include Fozzy Group, Novus, Rozetka, Epicentr, Nova Poshta, Puma, Liqui Moly, and Toyota Ukraine. Kyiv region has now lost over 1 million square meters of warehouse space since the full-scale invasion—roughly half its pre-war stock. Source: Forbes Ukraine.
WATCH: Ukrainian FPV interceptor drone downing Russian fiber-optic quadcopter using a net launcher.
Trump on Iran: We are going to be hitting them very hard because it's our turn to hit them. They know it's coming. They are asking us not to do it. They tried shooting at us with 5 rockets last night. We intercepted them all.
Trump on Iran: I'd like to see tariffs on Iran. Lindsey wanted it.
Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman met with JD Vance in Washington on Wednesday as tensions with Iran continued to rise. The visit came a day after the US and Saudi Arabia carried out joint strikes on Iran-linked logistics and weapons sites in Iraq. During the meeting, Khalid discussed the strikes, Saudi Arabia’s response to attacks on its infrastructure, and delivered a personal message from Crown Prince Moh…
Reporter: What can you tell us about the tanker attack in Egypt? Is it related to Iran? Trump: I've been briefed. It's a little more of the same.
Iran to Receive Hundreds of Chinese Air-Defense Missiles Within Weeks Iran is preparing to receive up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired air-defense missile launchers in a $70 million procurement of QW-12 and FN-16 systems, to be delivered within weeks.
Showing the 12 most recent of 19 posts we hold for @BricsNews_tg. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 8 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“BRICS News Today” (@BricsNews_tg), 454 subscribers as measured 8 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/BricsNews_tg.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.