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@witnessesagainstwar
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69subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001692463674 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @witnessesagainstwar |
| Description | We are an anonymous international collective that gathers and publishes anonymous witness statements from Russians who are against the war in Ukraine www.witnessesagainstwar.org |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 18 November 2022 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 10 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 17 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/witnessesagainstwar |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Aug 2026, 00:31 | 69 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 07:18 | 69 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 18 November 2022 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page 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 13 May 2023. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 10 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.
4 reactions across 3 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 50.0% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 2 | 50.0% | |
| 🔥 | 2 | 50.0% |
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 3 of the 20 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 4 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 18 November 2022 to 13 May 2023, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Why anti-war Russians are remaining in Russia. ‘Witnesses Against War’ spoke with many Russians who oppose the war. On condition of anonymity, these individuals, who continue their quiet resistance, explained why they remain in Russia and from where they draw hope. Part 2. “My parents are here, and I do not want to leave them. And I do not want to be forced to leave my home. Some day, I would like this country to …
Почему антивоенно настроенные россияне остаются в Росси. «Свидетельства против Войны», поговорили с множеством антивоенно настроенных россиян. На условиях анонимности эти люди, продолжающие свое тихое сопротивление, рассказали, почему они остаются в России, и на что они надеются. Часть 2 “Здесь мои родители, я не хочу их оставлять. И я не хочу насильно покидать свой дом. Я хочу, чтобы эта страна однажды стала мест…
🔥2
“I still want to do something to improve life in Russia. Not everyone who is against the war, is able or wants to leave. Some try to resist, create civil society, organise support groups - this is all still possible, and important. Of course, any planning these days is complicated, but one wants to hope that positive changes are possible, and they depend on us. I am afraid of criminal prosecution, police brutality, a…
👍1
“This is Russia's war, not just Putin's war. Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine. But other Russians, not Putin, are doing the killing in Ukraine. Other Russians, are paying taxes, to finance this killing. Some brave Russians protested against this war. Most have not.” The tweet was posted by former US ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul. His logic is understandable. From the outside Russian society appears u…
“Это война России, а не только война Путина. Путин принял решение вторгнуться в Украину. Но убивают в Украине другие россияне, а не Путин. Другие русские платят налоги, чтобы финансировать это убийство. Некоторые смелые русские протестовали против этой войны. Большинство нет" — такой твит оставил бывший посол США в России Майкл Макфол. И его логику можно понять: извне российское общество выглядит единым и сплоченным …
Arrest of Memorial members. Sergey Parkhomenko writes: "In Moscow, since early morning", writes Sergei Parkhomenko on his telegram channel, "the police, "Department E" and other raiders (including raider-propagandists) have been conducting searches of the apartments of the leaders and employees of "Memorial" - an organization that received the Nobel Peace Prize 2022, and at the same time was eliminated, banned, loot…
Activist from Feminist Anti-War Resistance In honour of tomorrow’s International Woman’s Day, here is an inspiring story of resistance from Russia's Feminist Anti-War Resistance. "Thank you FAWR (Feminist Anti-War Resistance) for the fact that I no longer feel alone. When everything started, I had absolutely no activist experience, or corresponding social network. I live in a provincial city; in my close circle th…
В честь завтрашнего Международного Дня Женщин, представляем вдохновляющую историю одной из подписчиц Феминистского Антивоенного Сопротивления «Спасибо большое ФАС за то, что я больше не чувствую себя одинокой. Когда все началось в феврале, я вообще не имела ни активистского опыта, ни соответствующего круга общения. Я живу в провинциальном городе, в моем близком кругу не было ни единого человека, который бы участвов…
Writer from St Petersburg, now emigrated to France “They are bombing Kyiv.” I got a call from a friend in the early morning, and these are the only words she said. When I look back on it, I understand now that things had been heading in this direction for some time. The way we tried to console ourselves and bargain with our own consciences (we feebly reassured ourselves that things would go no further than the ann…
Литератор, Санкт-Петербург, эмигрировал во Францию «Они бомбят Киев». Мне позвонила рано утром подруга и сказала только это. Оглядываясь назад, понимаю, что все к тому и шло, а наши самоутешения и попытки торговаться с собой (мол, дело ограничится Донбассом и прочие малодушные размышления) никак не повлияли на подготовку к наступлению, которое готовилось, видимо, годами. Первые дни были для меня самыми тяжелыми. …
‘A country has the heroes it deserves', Sergei Medvedev, Russian journalist and writer, on Radio Svoboda. “In Russia, there are now new heroes. In the city of Serov, in the Urals, there was a ceremonial burial for a certain Sergei Molodtsov, who died while fighting in Ukraine with the ‘Wagner Group.’ A memorial plaque was erected for him, a guard of honour presided over the funeral, and in the school they created a…
Linguist, Translator, University Teacher, 50-60 y.o. Part II Over time, my feelings about the on-going war have changed. The sharp pain that I had at the outset has turned into a chronic dull throb, which never goes away. Now, I walk around Moscow and imagine bombs and missiles raining down on it. This is not because I am afraid of Nato bombing in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine, but because I am putting …
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @witnessesagainstwar. 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.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
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.
@witnessesagainstwar named 1 handle 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.
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
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 10 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“WitnessesAgainstWar” (@witnessesagainstwar), 69 subscribers as measured 10 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/witnessesagainstwar.
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.