🟠 Ukraine's 44th Artillery Brigade Strikes Russian Howitzers Ukraine's 44th Artillery Brigade used Darts guided shells to strike Russian towed howitzers in Donetsk Oblast, continuing counter-battery operations. 📍 Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine ⚔️ Conflict · S3 - SIGNIFICANT 📡 @RALee85 View on Monitor The Situation

Channel
Monitor The Situation
@monitor_the_situation
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Handles named that no longer answer · Cite this entry
7,190subscribers
-114 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1003736239785 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @monitor_the_situation |
| Created | Between 1 February 2026 and 31 July 2026 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 27 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 15 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 27 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/monitor_the_situation |
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 12 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 98% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Sept 2026, 12:54 | 7,190 | -12 |
| 18 Sept 2026, 09:22 | 7,202 | -13 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 23:19 | 7,215 | -17 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 23:40 | 7,232 | -2 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 22:20 | 7,234 | +3 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 12:38 | 7,231 | -10 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 03:03 | 7,241 | -3 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 10:56 | 7,244 | -8 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 20:47 | 7,252 | -23 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 07:35 | 7,275 | -3 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 21:44 | 7,278 | -18 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 02:13 | 7,296 | -5 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 05:12 | 7,301 | -3 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 18:46 | 7,304 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 18:38 | 7,304 | first reading |
Engagement
219 posts held, back to 7 August 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 12 pages 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 219 posts for this entry, the most recent from 20 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
- Video runtime
- 28m 37s
- Average length
- 45s
Measured directly from 38 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.
Reaction mix
28 reactions across 24 posts, in 10 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 32.1% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 9 | 32.1% | |
| 👍 | 5 | 17.9% | |
| 🤬 | 5 | 17.9% | |
| 🔥 | 2 | 7.14% | |
| 😁 | 2 | 7.14% | |
| 👏 | 1 | 3.57% | |
| 🕊 | 1 | 3.57% | |
| 😡 | 1 | 3.57% | |
| 😢 | 1 | 3.57% | |
| 🤡 | 1 | 3.57% |
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 33 of the 219 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 28 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 219 most recent posts we hold, published 7 August 2026 to 20 August 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.
Recent posts
🟡 Russian Missile Debris Washes Up on Turkey's Black Sea Coast Pantsir-S1 interceptor debris, including 9M335 missile launch motors, recovered along Istanbul and Sinop coasts. 📍 Bosphorus, Turkey ⚔️ Conflict · S2 - NOTABLE 📡 @NOELreports View on Monitor The Situation
🟡 China Deploys Warplanes to Egypt for Eagles of Civilization Exercises PLA Air Force sends Y-20, tankers, AWACS and fighters to Egypt for annual exercises, flying over US Navy carrier area in Gulf of Oman. 📍 Gulf of Oman, International Waters 🏛️ Political · S2 - NOTABLE 📡 @MenchOsint View on Monitor The Situation
🟡 Russia Forms New Unmanned Systems Brigades in Donetsk Russia has formed the 25th and 27th unmanned systems brigades under Unmanned Systems Forces command, operating in western and southern directions with FPV, Molniya, and S350 teams. 📍 Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine 🏛️ Political · S2 - NOTABLE 📡 @RALee85 View on Monitor The Situation
🟡 Suspicious Activity Reported in Gulf of Aden UKMTO warns of suspicious activity 136 nautical miles east of Al Mukalla, Yemen, in the Gulf of Aden. 📍 Gulf of Aden, Yemen 🏛️ Political · S2 - NOTABLE 📡 @hey_itsmyturn View on Monitor The Situation
🟡 HUR Says Russia Has 50 Kinzhal Missiles Ukraine's HUR claims Russia holds about 50 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles and 50 North Korean KN-23 series missiles as of July 2026. 📍 Moscow, Russia 🏛️ Political · S2 - NOTABLE 📡 @KyivIndependent View on Monitor The Situation
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🟡 Ukraine Moves to Fire Sense Bank Leadership in Corruption Probe Ukrainian authorities seek to dismiss or suspend Sense Bank's leadership following NABU searches on Aug. 19. 📍 Kyiv, Ukraine 🏛️ Political · S2 - NOTABLE 📡 @KyivIndependent View on Monitor The Situation
🟡 Turkey Denies Military Delegation at Syrian Base Struck by Israel Turkey denies any military delegation was present at the Abu al-Duhur air base in Syria after Israeli strikes, urging international action. 📍 Abu al-Duhur, Syria 🏛️ Political · S2 - NOTABLE 📡 @MenchOsint View on Monitor The Situation
👍2
🟡 Ukraine Says Russia Produces 200+ Missiles Monthly Ukraine's military intelligence estimates Russia can produce over 200 cruise and ballistic missiles per month, detailing stockpiles of Kalibr, Iskander-M, Zircon, and North Korean KN-series missiles. 📍 Kyiv, Ukraine 🏛️ Political · S2 - NOTABLE 📡 @NOELreports View on Monitor The Situation
🟡 Ukraine Shoots Down Cruise Missile Near Kyiv Ukraine's State Border Guard Service used a machine gun to shoot down a cruise missile heading towards Kyiv, which fell outside populated areas. 📍 Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine ⚔️ Conflict · S2 - NOTABLE 📡 @NOELreports View on Monitor The Situation
🟠 Ukraine Strikes Russian Convoy on R-280 Highway Ukrainian forces attacked a Russian military convoy on the R-280 highway connecting Crimea to Rostov, burning vehicles in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. 📍 R-280 Highway, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine ⚔️ Conflict · S3 - SIGNIFICANT 📡 @NOELreports View on Monitor The Situation
🟡 North Korea Fires Projectile Toward Sea of Japan South Korea's military detected an unidentified projectile launched toward the Sea of Japan; analysis is underway to determine the weapon type. 📍 Sea of Japan, International Waters 🏛️ Political · S2 - NOTABLE 📡 @FaytuksNetwork View on Monitor The Situation
Showing the 12 most recent of 219 posts we hold for @monitor_the_situation. 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.
Mentions
Named by 1 registered channel — 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.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
@kyivindependent · 4,63714 postsOSINTtechnical
@osinttechnical · 95213 postsBreaking911
@breaking911 · 55,32910 postsMenchOsint 📡
@MenchOsint · 3,0797 postsChrisO_wiki
@chrisO_wiki · 356 posts:)
@hey_itsmyturn · 106 postsInSight Crime
@InSightCrime · 85 postsვიზიონერი • Visioner
@visionergeo · 7515 postsRob Lee
@RALee85 · 964 postsCIT
@citeam_en · 83 postsEndGameWW3
@EndGameWW3 · 793 postsTankerTrackers.com Inc.,
@TankerTrackers · 1,9872 postsBNO News
@bnonews · 4,6341 postEvergreen Intel
@vcdgf555 · 91 post
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.
Handles this channel named that no longer answer
- Dead references
- 8
- handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
- Evidenced gone
- 0
- we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
- Never seen alive
- 8
- vacant every time we have ever looked
@monitor_the_situation named 8 handles that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
named in 20 posts, 8 August 2026 – 21 August 2026
named in 6 posts, 9 August 2026 – 20 August 2026
named in 5 posts, 8 August 2026 – 21 August 2026
named in 2 posts, 9 August 2026 – 11 August 2026
named in 1 post, 21 August 2026 – 21 August 2026
named in 1 post, 11 August 2026 – 11 August 2026
named in 1 post, 9 August 2026 – 9 August 2026
named in 1 post, 9 August 2026 – 9 August 2026
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 27 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Monitor The Situation” (@monitor_the_situation), 7,190 subscribers as measured 27 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/monitor_the_situation.
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.