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Created
28 March 2018 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
8 measurements spanning 6 days, net -38. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 31,789–31,839 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
12 Aug 2026, 07:43
31,795
-10
11 Aug 2026, 10:43
31,805
-4
10 Aug 2026, 12:04
31,809
-9
9 Aug 2026, 08:41
31,818
-8
8 Aug 2026, 09:17
31,826
+1
7 Aug 2026, 11:43
31,825
-8
6 Aug 2026, 04:15
31,833
no change
6 Aug 2026, 04:07
31,833
first reading
Engagement
65 posts held, back to 5 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 18 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
6.01%
avg views ÷ 31,795 subscribers
Avg views / post
1,910
65 posts measured
Reaction rate
1.97%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
65
of 65 held
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.
What these figures were computed from
Window
Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 13 August 2026
Posts held
65 (5 August 2026 – 13 August 2026)
Views total
124,113
Reactions total
2,447
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
13 Aug 2026, 10:00 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.
What this channel posts
Photos
≈9,540
Videos
≈10,300
Links
≈48,000
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 13 August 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.
Video runtime
26m 12s
Average length
1m 08s
Measured directly from 23 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
2,277 reactions across 60 posts, in 6 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 26.2% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
👍
596
26.2%
❤
566
24.9%
👏
390
17.1%
🔥
379
16.6%
👎
314
13.8%
🥰
32
1.41%
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 65 of the 65 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 2,447reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 65 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 13 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.
Israel Is Worried Syria Is Using Deception To Plot October 7-Style Attack
Israel's defense establishment has detected an acceleration in Syria's efforts to rebuild its air force, Kan News reported on August 10.
According to Kan News, Israeli officials have recently identified Syrian efforts to recruit new pilots and conduct training using trainer aircraft and helicopters.
Israel is clearly alarmed by Syria's effor…
Russian Army Storms Strategic Heights Near Druzhkovka
In the Druzhkovka direction, Russian units are clearing remaining pockets in Chasov Yar, advancing in the Yuzhny and Shevchenko areas, and fighting for Nikolaevka and Krasnoye.
In the Sumy region, assault groups of the "North" advanced on eighteen sectors by up to 700 meters, continuing offensive operations.
In the Kharkiv region, Russian forces captured Shcher…
Strikes On Black Sea Ports: Russia Hits Odesa, Ukraine Strikes Novorossiysk
On the night of August 12, 2026, both sides carried out large-scale strikes: Russia focused on port, energy, and industrial infrastructure across Ukraine, including the critical Zaporizhstal steel plant in Zaporizhzhia, while Ukraine conducted a concentrated operation against the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.
Strikes on Ukraine
R…
Kuwait Foils Spider Web-Inspired Terror Plot (Video)
Kuwaiti security forces foiled "a terrorist plot" targeting a vital facility and arrested a citizen affiliated with ISIS before the plan could be carried out, the country's interior ministry announced on August 12.
In a statement, the ministry said the State Security Service uncovered the plot following intensive monitoring and surveillance.
Investigations found…
In Video: Russian Ka-52s Snipe Ukrainian Long-Range Drones Out Of The Sky
The Russian military continues to deploy its Ka-52M attack helicopters to hunt down Ukrainian long-range one-way attack drones with much success.
In video footage posted to social networks on August 12, Ka-52Ms are seen intercepting over 30 such drones. It is unclear where exactly the interceptions took place.
The helicopters took down all t…
Ukraine Warns Russia Is Producing 3,000 Jet-Powered Drones Each Month
Russia is now producing upwards of 3,000 Geran-4 and 5 jet-powered drones, Ukraine's Military news website reported on August 12, citing information from the country's Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR).
The report said that the use of these drones is becoming increasingly widespread due to the improvement of their flight and technical character…
Trump Hid In Truck To Evade Iranian Assassination Plot In Turkey
United States President Donald Trump secretly flew out of Turkey last month on a smaller plane than previously known due to an alleged assassination threat from Iran, The Washington Post reported on August 11.
According to a U.S. official who spoke to The Post, Trump boarded an Air Force One jet in Ankara on July 8, but then moved into a catering cont…
Europe's Fury Over Russia's Anthem Reaches New Level
Brussels is prepared to go to any lengths to prevent Russia's return to international sport.
European elites, according to Russian foreign intelligence, have fallen into panic following the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision to lift all restrictions on Russian athletes and the Russian Olympic Committee.
The EU views this decision as nullifying years …
Putin Declares Open Season on Western Shipping
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a sweeping maritime threat that could send shockwaves through the global shipping industry, declaring that Moscow will seize Western merchant vessels anywhere in the world in response to any European interception of Russian ships.
Speaking on August 12 from the guided-missile cruiser Varyag during the final stage of Pacific F…
🔥32👍21❤10👏9
Showing the 12 most recent of 65 posts we hold for @southfronteng. 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.
Citation-graph rank
Citation-graph rank — 96,506 of 1,169,250entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
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.
Mentions
Named by 2 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.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
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.
Referenced elsewhere
This handle named by sources this register does not control and did not measure — each shown exactly as found, attributed by name, dated to when it was read.
Wikipedia
One Wikipedia article names this handle in its article text, found by searching for a t.me link inside the article source. A citation is a notability signal, not a verification: nobody here confirmed the cited post is genuine or still says what the article quotes. Article text is CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia contributors; snippets below are short excerpts.
SouthFront(en.wikipedia.org) “…"{{Cite web |title=SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence |url=https://t.me/southfronteng/37832 |access-date=2023-08-18 |website=Telegram |archive-date=18…” read 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 12 August 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence” (@southfronteng), 31,795 subscribers as measured 12 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/southfronteng.
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.