Ukraine captures first Indonesian prisoner of war amid surge in Russian recruitment Capture of man from Java follows reports that hundreds are being recruited from the south-east Asian country as Moscow seeks to boost its war effort
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Channel
@guardian
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42,446subscribers
+1,523 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001640086866 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @guardian |
| Description | Latest coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war |
| Created | 10 June 2022 — measured — Telegram's own channel record (MTProto) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 9 November 2026 |
| Measurements held | 65 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 9 November 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/guardian |
International news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 20 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 62% 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 the other topics.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Nov 2026, 23:08 | 42,446 | +6 |
| 8 Nov 2026, 15:04 | 42,440 | -2 |
| 7 Nov 2026, 10:35 | 42,442 | +28 |
| 6 Nov 2026, 12:19 | 42,414 | +35 |
| 5 Nov 2026, 09:17 | 42,379 | +25 |
| 4 Nov 2026, 09:17 | 42,354 | +26 |
| 3 Nov 2026, 07:00 | 42,328 | +12 |
| 2 Nov 2026, 09:36 | 42,316 | +19 |
| 1 Nov 2026, 11:25 | 42,297 | +70 |
| 31 Oct 2026, 12:55 | 42,227 | +40 |
| 30 Oct 2026, 15:06 | 42,187 | +14 |
| 29 Oct 2026, 15:28 | 42,173 | +15 |
| 28 Oct 2026, 12:20 | 42,158 | -1 |
| 27 Oct 2026, 13:46 | 42,159 | +15 |
| 26 Oct 2026, 15:41 | 42,144 | +12 |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:57 | 42,132 | -5 |
| 24 Oct 2026, 20:28 | 42,137 | +1 |
| 23 Oct 2026, 17:45 | 42,136 | +23 |
| 22 Oct 2026, 19:46 | 42,113 | +9 |
| 21 Oct 2026, 15:46 | 42,104 | first reading |
173 posts held, back to 21 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 186 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 11 November 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 173 (21 July 2026 – 11 November 2026) |
| Views total | 240,150 |
| Reactions total | 3,306 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 11 Nov 2026, 13:42 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 11 November 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
11,441 reactions across 171 posts, in 5 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 30.3% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 3,466 | 30.3% | |
| 👎 | 2,757 | 24.1% | |
| ❤ | 1,978 | 17.3% | |
| 😢 | 1,656 | 14.5% | |
| 🤔 | 1,584 | 13.8% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 173 of the 173 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 11,595 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 173 most recent posts we hold, published 21 July 2026 to 11 November 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 0 of 47 posts held from the last 30 days (0%) carried it when this register last read them. The marker says a post was changed after publishing, not what it said before — this register holds the earlier wording only where an edit fell between two of its own reads (see the edit ledger and how it is measured).
Ukraine captures first Indonesian prisoner of war amid surge in Russian recruitment Capture of man from Java follows reports that hundreds are being recruited from the south-east Asian country as Moscow seeks to boost its war effort
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Merz accused of ‘blackmail’ by Slovakian PM after demand for Ukraine aid in EU budget German chancellor has signalled he will block budget with no aid deal, complaining that burden is ‘carried mostly by only a few member states’
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US officials seek ‘final end’ to Russia-Ukraine war as Abu Dhabi talks begin First substantive peace talks since February to include US proposal for ‘long-term security architecture’ between Moscow and Europe
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More than 400,000 Russians killed fighting in Ukraine war, leaked data suggests Hacked death records reveal scale of losses since Moscow launched full-scale invasion nearly five years ago
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Blackouts and water shortages in Kyiv after Russia strikes Ukraine’s energy grid Moscow used 172 drones and 36 ballistic missiles in attacks on electricity substations and bridge over the Dnipro
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UK apologises to Ukrainian child refugees who were told to study Russian Exclusive: Schools minister launches new Ukrainian GCSE and says she is sorry students were pushed to study Russian in its absence
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Canada joins coalition refusing to play ice hockey against Russia over Ukraine war Growing number of countries are resisting Russia’s reintegration into international hockey after a sports court lifted a ban on competition
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Russian bombing of Ukrainian aid centre kills at least 26, Kyiv says Ukrainian president Zelenskyy says attack on aid hub was ‘vile’ and shows Russia does not want to de-escalate
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Hackers send fake nuclear threat alert to Ukraine emergency app Residents in Kyiv also warned of chemical attack and street-to-street fighting in false message sent by unknown party
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Ukraine defies Trump to resume attacks on Russian oil Reported strikes on two refineries risk angering the US president days before his country’s midterm elections
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Oleshky evacuees reunite with families after truce allows crossing into Ukraine Residents of nearby villages line highway waving flags to greet the evacuees’ convoy from the Russian-occupied city
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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy praises US over $2.1bn Patriot missile deal but warns it could take years The Ukrainian president called the US decision strong, but added that delivery of 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles could take years
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Showing the 12 most recent of 173 posts we hold for @guardian. 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.
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Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Named by 10 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
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A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 29 August 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 34 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 24 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A Wikidata item names this Telegram handle as belonging to the entity it describes. This is Wikidata’s claim, not a verification made by this register — nobody here confirmed that the account is genuinely operated by the entity named. Wikidata content is CC0; every fact below is dated to when it was read from Wikidata, not to when the association was first made there.
| Label | The Guardian |
|---|---|
| Description | British national daily newspaper |
| X / Twitter | @guardian |
| YouTube | UCHpw8xwDNhU9gdohEcJu4aA |
| Official site | https://www.theguardian.com |
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 9 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Guardian” (@guardian), 42,446 subscribers as measured 9 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/guardian.
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.