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@washingtonpost
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57,028subscribers
-645 since we began measuring on 5 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001184664229 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @washingtonpost |
| Description | The official Washington Post channel, sharing live news coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine. You can find our full coverage at https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ukraine-russia/. The Post’s coverage is free to access in Ukraine and Russia. |
| Created | 30 July 2020 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 25 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 35 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 25 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/washingtonpost |
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 82% 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.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Sept 2026, 19:18 | 57,028 | -48 |
| 19 Sept 2026, 05:17 | 57,076 | -58 |
| 16 Sept 2026, 22:40 | 57,134 | -21 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 03:16 | 57,155 | -43 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 15:20 | 57,198 | -39 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 19:36 | 57,237 | +3 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 09:15 | 57,234 | -4 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 03:19 | 57,238 | -47 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 17:28 | 57,285 | -12 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 14:35 | 57,297 | -13 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 14:54 | 57,310 | -12 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 14:04 | 57,322 | -16 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 13:13 | 57,338 | -8 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 11:52 | 57,346 | +12 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 15:12 | 57,334 | +8 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 12:46 | 57,326 | -12 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 11:58 | 57,338 | -16 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 09:07 | 57,354 | -19 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 20:02 | 57,373 | -25 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 11:26 | 57,398 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 17 February 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 105 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 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 27 March 2025. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 27 September 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.
Zelensky and Trump may be doing better, but tough issues lie ahead The consequences of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s contentious White House visit last month appear to have abated. But this week’s negotiations in Saudi Arabia suggest the conversation over how to end the war in Ukraine will only get harder. Russia and Ukraine agreed Tuesday to expand a partial ceasefire to include the Black Sea, a develop…
U.S. gets Russian and Ukrainian commitment to Black Sea ceasefire Russia and Ukraine agreed Tuesday to expand their initial limited ceasefire on energy infrastructure to include the Black Sea after U.S.-sponsored indirect talks in Saudi Arabia. In separate joint statements from the White House — one between the United States and Russia, another between the U.S. and Ukraine — the two countries agreed to “ensure safe…
Trump, Zelensky speak a day after White House talks with Putin President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a “very good telephone call” on Wednesday, Trump said, a day after the U.S. leader agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin on a limited ceasefire in Ukraine that would spare energy infrastructure targets in both Ukraine and Russia. The conversation between Trump and Zelensky took…
Trump and Putin agree to partial ceasefire in Ukraine, but plan still needs Kyiv’s approval President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday negotiated a partial ceasefire in the Ukraine war, making a deal in a lengthy call to end strikes on energy and infrastructure after more than three years of battle. The Kremlin said that Putin immediately ordered the military to cease strikes on Ukrainian…
Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children The Trump administration has terminated a U.S.-funded initiative that documents alleged Russian war crimes, including a sensitive database detailing the mass deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, according to U.S. officials familiar with the directive and documents obtained by The Washington Post. The move has barred the transmission of …
Russia confirms Trump-Putin call set for Tuesday over next steps in ceasefire talks President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are set to speak in a phone call on Tuesday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin confirmed Monday, as the United States seeks Moscow’s support for a 30-day ceasefire proposal. Trump first announced the planned call on Sunday, stating there was “a very good chance”…
Kremlin says Putin ‘cautiously optimistic’ on deal, needs to talk to Trump Hours after President Donald Trump’s Russia envoy, Steve Witkoff, flew out of Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov portrayed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s position as standing “in solidarity” with Trump, although the Russian leader had cast serious doubt on a U.S. 30-day ceasefire proposal to halt fighting in the Ukraine war. Peskov …
Russia makes gains against Ukraine in Kursk as Trump envoy arrives in Moscow Ahead of talks with U.S. officials over a proposed 30-day ceasefire in the Ukraine war, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a defiant military message when he made a rare appearance in a camouflage uniform to mark Russian advances against Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region of southern Russia. Ukraine’s seven-month-old occupation of a s…
U.S. and Ukraine start peace talks as Moscow and Kyiv trade strikes JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — The United States and Ukraine began talks Tuesday aimed at ending the war in Ukraine as Moscow came under one of its largest bombardments of the conflict from long-range drones. The violence in Russia’s capital came as Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia underscored their openness to U.S.-led negotiations in a bid to repair t…
Amid fierce fighting along the front, Ukraine prepares for U.S. talks Ukrainian forces battled to stave off fierce Russian attacks both inside Russia and along Ukraine’s front lines, as the country’s officials prepared Monday for high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia with an increasingly skeptical ally, the United States. Ukraine hopes the talks, set to begin Tuesday, will restore relations after a bruising week in whi…
Ukraine fears Musk may cut vital Starlink internet amid Trump pressure With the pausing of billions of dollars in U.S. military aid and of intelligence sharing with Ukraine, there are fears in the country that billionaire Elon Musk’s vital Starlink internet service could also be cut. Thousands of Starlink terminals are working on Ukraine’s battlefields. They serve as commanders’ eyes and ears, providing access to d…
Spooked by Trump and Putin, Europe rushes to rearm The European Union, an entity that casts itself as a peace and trade project, is in crisis talks Thursday focused on defense. Along with the specter of a belligerent Moscow, President Donald Trump’s sudden redrawing of alliances and withdrawal of aid for Ukraine are driving Europeans to fast-track plans to bolster their militaries, upgrade their arsenals — and, ult…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @washingtonpost. 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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| Label | The Washington Post |
|---|---|
| Description | daily broadsheet newspaper in Washington, D.C. |
| X / Twitter | @capitalweather |
| YouTube | UCHd62-u_v4DvJ8TCFtpi4GA |
| Official site | http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=318&TS=1099416399&clientId=30345&VType=PQD&VName=HNP&VInst=PROD&pmid=000048611&PageNum=1 |
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