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Wartime Media - Ukraine / Russia / China / Etc

@wartimedia

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7,534subscribers

-6 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001723547068
TypeChannel
Username@wartimedia
DescriptionWartime Photos, Videos and press releases/ Wartime memorabilia. Up to date TRANSLATED releases from Ukraine, Russia, China, Chinese Taipei, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, etc etc.. Periodic random happenings.
Created24 February 2022measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live12 August 2026
Measurements held4
Confirmed unchanged2 times, most recently 12 August 2026
On Telegramt.me/wartimedia

Topic

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 11 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 99% 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.

Observations

These are measurements, not verdicts. Each one below states something we counted, alongside the evidence it was counted from, so you can check it rather than take it. None of them is graded: every observation this register holds is recorded at severity 0, because the precision of the detectors behind them has not been measured yet, and a rating we cannot support is worse than none. Read each as a fact about the data, not as a judgement about the channel. How we measure.

Content that also appears on other registered channels

Posts published here appear word for word on 2 other registered channels. The matching is on the text itself, not on Telegram’s forward marker, so it finds a copy whether or not it was labelled as one.

Matching posts — open both and compare (6 of the pairs behind the counts below)
Posted firstThenOverlapGap
@CyberspecNews/1136706 Aug 2026, 04:14 UTC@wartimedia/132795 · this entry6 Aug 2026, 08:55 UTC1.004.7 hours
@CyberspecNews/1136726 Aug 2026, 04:28 UTC@wartimedia/132796 · this entry6 Aug 2026, 09:16 UTC1.004.8 hours
@CyberspecNews/1136716 Aug 2026, 04:24 UTC@wartimedia/132797 · this entry6 Aug 2026, 09:29 UTC1.005.1 hours
@CyberspecNews/1136806 Aug 2026, 04:57 UTC@wartimedia/132801 · this entry6 Aug 2026, 10:16 UTC1.005.3 hours
@CyberspecNews/1137627 Aug 2026, 11:27 UTC@wartimedia/132874 · this entry7 Aug 2026, 12:08 UTC1.0041 minutes
@CyberspecNews/1137997 Aug 2026, 16:43 UTC@wartimedia/132930 · this entry7 Aug 2026, 19:25 UTC1.002.7 hours
Every channel this entry shares post bodies with
ChannelMatching postsText overlapTypical gapPublished first
@CyberspecNews8 (8/8 hand-verifiable sample passed)1.003.8 hours@CyberspecNews (80)
@NewResistance6 (6/6 hand-verifiable sample passed)1.0023 minutes@NewResistance (42)

Text overlap is the Jaccard coefficient over the set of distinct three-word phrases in the two bodies: 1.00 is identical wording, and the threshold for counting a pair at all is 0.70. Candidates are generated by simhash LSH (4 x 16-bit bands, exact Hamming <= 3) verified against the bodies with Jaccard over the SET of distinct 3-word shingles. Published first counts which side of each matching pair carries the earlier timestamp — in this corpus, which is the limitation directly below.

What this cannot establish

MEASURED, DOMINANT ERROR SOURCE: a post ingested before 2026-08-06 may have carried a forward header that was not recorded. A 45-pair hand-check against live t.me pages found 14 (31%) where the live page shows a forward header naming the other channel and the database has none, plus 4 more (9%) naming a third party. The text match itself was wrong 0 times out of 45. Read attribution_capture.items_in_trusted_window before treating the unattributed count as a claim.

Telegram lets a channel forward a post with a header naming the source, and we only began reliably recording that header on 2026-08-06. 8 of the 8 matches recorded here fall after that date and carried no header when we read them. The rest predate reliable capture and are not evidence either way.

“Published first” means first in this corpus. We hold 29 comparable posts for this entry, running 6 August 2026 to 7 August 2026. A channel we have read one page deep will look younger than a neighbour we have read in full, and the order would flip with no change in the underlying facts.

The detector’s own notes on this observation, as it recorded them. Names in this_style are fields of the underlying evidence record, which the plain-English paragraphs above read out for this entry.

  • Verbatim republication has three causes and the text separates only two: a clone/mirror, unattributed copy-paste, or BOTH channels copying a common third source that neither attributes. The spread filter (content held by at most 8 channels) reduces the third and does not remove it.
  • 'Earliest' means earliest IN THIS CORPUS. A channel ingested one page deep will look younger than a neighbour ingested in full; corpus_coverage above is there to be checked before the direction is believed.
  • shared_verified_est extrapolates the sampled pass rate over the full narrow match count; sampled/passed are the numbers actually measured.
  • Absence of a forward header is not proof of intent: Telegram lets a channel disable forward attribution, and a credit written in the body is not parsed as attribution here (mention_edge_either_way above is the closest available signal).

Across the whole group of 3, the earliest publisher we hold is @CyberspecNews. That is a statement about our reading window, not a claim of authorship.

Recorded under the keys clone_copy · clone_mutual, last confirmed 8 August 2026. An observation that a later pass no longer finds is cleared, and a cleared observation is removed from this page rather than being shown struck through — we do not keep publishing a claim we have withdrawn. Dispute an observation.

Also posting the same content

This channel’s posts match, word for word or near enough, posts on 2 other registered channels, found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register. That matching has been checked by hand against the live Telegram pages and found reliable — 0 wrong of 45 pairs re-read.

Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown. The same hand-check found that reading wrong 18 of 45 times — 60%, no better than a coin flip — because it depends on how deep our own crawl happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Word-for-word matching has several ordinary explanations besides copying — a channel mirroring itself, an unattributed repost, or two channels independently repeating the same wire story — and this measurement cannot tell those apart. How this is measured.

Growth

7,5347,5407,5376 August 2026 — 7,540 subscribers6 August 2026 — 7,540 subscribers6 August 2026 — 7,539 subscribers9 August 2026 — 7,534 subscribers6 August 20269 August 2026
4 measurements spanning 3 days, net -6. 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 7,533–7,541 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
9 Aug 2026, 14:137,534-5
6 Aug 2026, 22:427,539-1
6 Aug 2026, 10:197,540no change
6 Aug 2026, 10:007,540first reading

Engagement

154 posts held, back to 6 August 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 11 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
1.95%
avg views ÷ 7,534 subscribers
Avg views / post
147
154 posts measured
Reaction rate
1.40%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
154
of 154 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. It is computed over the 76 of 154 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 12 August 2026
Posts held154 (6 August 202612 August 2026)
Views total22,673
Reactions total205
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken12 Aug 2026, 17:21 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
59,700
Videos
50,700
Links
19,200

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 12 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
1h 30m
Average length
1m 18s

Measured directly from 70 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

205 reactions across 75 posts, in 22 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 28.3% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
5828.3%
🤣2713.2%
👍178.29%
🤬178.29%
🥴146.83%
🔥136.34%
👏125.85%
👎104.88%
💅73.41%
💯62.93%
❤‍🔥41.95%
🌭41.95%
😁41.95%
🖕20.976%
😱20.976%
🤔20.976%
🍌10.488%
🐳10.488%
👀10.488%
😢10.488%
2 further kinds20.976%

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 76 of the 154 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 205reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 154 most recent posts we hold, published 6 August 2026 to 12 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

12 Aug 2026, 17:16 UTC15 viewsread 12 August 2026
Forwarded from @CerFunhouse

India continues Su-30MKI modernization with Russian assistance After negotiations between Moscow and Delhi are completed, a separate proposal will be submitted to the Indian Defense Ministry for Acceptance of Necessity, marking the first formal step in the procurement process, followed by commercial negotiations and finalization of the contract. This could be one of the largest Russo-Indian defense deals in recent y

12 Aug 2026, 17:15 UTC15 viewsread 12 August 2026
Forwarded from @NewResistancePhoto

💢 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has hired over 2,000 gamers to train as air traffic controllers, as they possess skills essential for this profession, such as multitasking, quick decision-making, and problem-solving abilities. Thanks to a campaign launched in April, the FAA has achieved 94% of its hiring goal, and more than 2,000 additional candidates are currently undergoing the selection process.

12 Aug 2026, 16:58 UTC51 viewsread 12 August 2026
Photo

📸 The United States completely controls the Strait of Hormuz and maintains a naval blockade, "Praise be to God," Trump stated.

12 Aug 2026, 15:33 UTC87 views2 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Forwarded from @NewResistancePhoto

💢 Syria condemns Colombia’s recognition of 'Israeli sovereignty' over the Golan Heights — SANA Damascus sent an official protest to the UN Secretary-General Guterres Subscribe @NewResistance

👏2

12 Aug 2026, 15:23 UTC89 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Forwarded from @NewResistance

💢 Iran is set to join the New Development Bank (NDB), the BRICS-backed development bank, Central Bank of Iran Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said. Subscribe @NewResistance

👍1

12 Aug 2026, 15:04 UTC99 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Forwarded from @NewResistancePhoto

💢 Dmitriev on X: JUST IN: FBI had 14 informants on Biden corruption but ran secret op to dismiss evidence as disinformation. Biden’s corruption—and his team’s narratives to mislead and misdirect. False narratives are the deep state’s weapon of choice. 🔗 Subscribe @NewResistance

👎1

12 Aug 2026, 14:49 UTC103 viewsread 12 August 2026
Forwarded from @ToiletSharesPhoto

Summary of US CPI (inflation stats) and jobs numbers

12 Aug 2026, 14:36 UTC117 views2 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Video

😎The tank was here, and now it's gone. We conducted a raid through the enemy's rear areas and found the tank. Such a valuable target couldn't be missed: the first drone immobilized the vehicle, and the second hit its vulnerable spot. 🤙! ❗️🤙

❤‍🔥1👍1

12 Aug 2026, 14:23 UTC117 viewsread 12 August 2026
Video

‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦An enemy logistics warehouse serving major retail chains has been attacked and is burning near Kyiv. ▪️The facility in Brovary provided transportation for major retail chains, including ATB, METRO, NOVUS, Auchan, and Silpo. ▪️The name of the logistics company has not been publicly disclosed. It is reported to have been operated not only in Ukraine but also in other European countries. ▪️NASA FIRMS satellite da

12 Aug 2026, 14:12 UTC113 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Photo

‼️🇱🇻🇺🇦 TCC staff beat a Latvian during a mobilization attempt in Kryvyi Rih ▪️The man claims he informed the people-catchers of his Latvian citizenship, but they continued to beat him despite this. ▪️According to him, the TCC staff also demanded that he sign a military contract. ▪️Only the intervention of passersby allowed the man to escape. ▪️He refused to call an ambulance, stating that he feared being transferred

👍1

12 Aug 2026, 13:56 UTC120 viewsread 12 August 2026
Video

Kuwait has released images it claims are related to a plot that targeted vital infrastructure. The Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior claims: The detainee received training related to the manufacture of explosives and drones, which were intended to be used to carry out his terrorist plan.

Showing the 12 most recent of 154 posts we hold for @wartimedia. 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 — 52,609 of 1,151,006entries 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

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 4 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.

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.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

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.

Geopolitics Prime | Iran & Ukraine News Updates
@geopolitics_prime · 295,285
Telegram ranks this channel #25 of 86 here — alongside 85 others — read 10 August 2026
DD Geopolitics
@DDGeopolitics · 191,636
Telegram ranks this channel #50 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 11 August 2026
Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸
@rnintel · 178,485
Telegram ranks this channel #72 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 12 August 2026

This channel appears in 3 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

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 9 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Wartime Media - Ukraine / Russia / China / Etc” (@wartimedia), 7,534 subscribers as measured 9 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/wartimedia.

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.