Channel
@kyivindependent
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Handles named that no longer answer · Cite this entry
4,637subscribers
-87 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001699546626 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @kyivindependent |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 25 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 15 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 25 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/kyivindependent |
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 13 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.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Sept 2026, 00:18 | 4,637 | +15 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 07:39 | 4,622 | -10 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 08:36 | 4,632 | -8 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 17:20 | 4,640 | -10 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 21:35 | 4,650 | -8 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 04:55 | 4,658 | -9 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 22:35 | 4,667 | -7 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 20:16 | 4,674 | -8 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 05:34 | 4,682 | -6 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 11:13 | 4,688 | -15 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 23:26 | 4,703 | -9 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 02:57 | 4,712 | -9 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 23:51 | 4,721 | -3 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 05:00 | 4,724 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 04:50 | 4,724 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 23 May 2023 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 7 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 23 May 2023. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
“With NATO’s mid-July summit in Vilnius fast approaching, the question on everyone’s mind is how to avoid another debacle concerning Ukraine’s prospective membership in the alliance,” writes @carlbildt. https://t.co/GLHI0lrU7l
Contrary to the Russian Defense Ministry's claim, the Free Russia Legion that has purportedly crossed into Russia posted several videos alleging that the fight was ongoing.
Gladkov didn't say what the current situation in the region was and whether residents who fled their homes could return. The "counter-terrorist operation" was announced a day before amid reports of combat clashes with Russian partisans in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine.
⚡️'Counter-terrorist operation' in Russia's Belgorod region canceled. Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia's Belgorod Oblast, reported calling off the "counter-terrorist operation" shortly after Russian Defense Ministry announced a defeat of the Belgorod incursion.
All the stories and videos explaining Ukraine's past and present without distortions and myths will be published on the Kyiv Independent website and YouTube channel.
Subscribe to "Ukraine's True History" for a chance to win one of the 10 copies of @SPlokhy's new book, "The Russo-Ukrainian War," with the author's signature. https://t.co/5pWhcSxcxB
The Kyiv Independent will publish the next part of the "Ukraine's True History" project today, May 23. The episode will talk about Crimea and why Russia doesn't have a "historical right" to annex the Ukrainian peninsula. Subscribe here: https://t.co/ILgsEnyH35 https://t.co/3FLjbZjEl2
⚡️Russian state media: Gershkovich's detention extended until Aug 30. A Moscow court extended Wall Street Journalist reporter Evan Gershkovich's detention until Aug. 30, Russian state media RIA Novosti reported on May 23.
Earlier the same day, the European Union's chief diplomat Josep Borrell said several countries, including Poland, had started training Ukrainian pilots to use U.S.-built F-16 jets.
The Air Force representatives are now in those countries ready to provide the training to "study how the process will go," but pilots themselves have not arrived yet, Ihnat said on May 23, as cited by Ukrainska Pravda.
⚡️Air Force denies start of F-16 training, says preparations underway. Ukraine's Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat refuted reports that Ukrainian pilots were already learning to fly F-16 fighter jets, saying the preparation for the program is still ongoing.
⚡️France 'prepared' to provide security guarantees for Ukraine. France is "prepared to enter into agreements with Ukraine aimed at providing it with security guarantees," according to a statement published by the French Foreign Ministry on May 23.
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @kyivindependent. 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.
Named by 3 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.
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.
@kyivindependent named 2 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.
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 25 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Kyiv Independent” (@kyivindependent), 4,637 subscribers as measured 25 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/kyivindependent.
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.