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SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence

@southfronteng

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31,583subscribers

-250 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001251299061
TypeChannel
Username@southfronteng
DescriptionOur mission is to report on and analyse the military and geo-political issues of our time. Website: https://southfront.press/ Email: [email protected]
Created28 March 2018measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live18 September 2026
Measurements held34
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 18 September 2026
On Telegramt.me/southfronteng

Topic

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 9 September 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.

Growth

31,58331,83331,7086 August 2026 — 31,833 subscribers6 August 2026 — 31,833 subscribers7 August 2026 — 31,825 subscribers8 August 2026 — 31,826 subscribers9 August 2026 — 31,818 subscribers10 August 2026 — 31,809 subscribers11 August 2026 — 31,805 subscribers12 August 2026 — 31,795 subscribers14 August 2026 — 31,783 subscribers16 August 2026 — 31,774 subscribers17 August 2026 — 31,762 subscribers18 August 2026 — 31,755 subscribers19 August 2026 — 31,743 subscribers20 August 2026 — 31,733 subscribers21 August 2026 — 31,727 subscribers22 August 2026 — 31,721 subscribers24 August 2026 — 31,714 subscribers25 August 2026 — 31,699 subscribers26 August 2026 — 31,702 subscribers27 August 2026 — 31,698 subscribers28 August 2026 — 31,687 subscribers29 August 2026 — 31,672 subscribers30 August 2026 — 31,667 subscribers31 August 2026 — 31,656 subscribers1 September 2026 — 31,653 subscribers2 September 2026 — 31,642 subscribers3 September 2026 — 31,639 subscribers5 September 2026 — 31,636 subscribers9 September 2026 — 31,619 subscribers11 September 2026 — 31,608 subscribers13 September 2026 — 31,601 subscribers14 September 2026 — 31,597 subscribers16 September 2026 — 31,591 subscribers18 September 2026 — 31,583 subscribers6 August 202618 September 2026
34 measurements spanning 44 days, net -250. 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 31,546–31,871 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 34
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
18 Sept 2026, 21:0131,583-8
16 Sept 2026, 11:3731,591-6
14 Sept 2026, 18:1631,597-4
13 Sept 2026, 07:5631,601-7
11 Sept 2026, 13:5931,608-11
9 Sept 2026, 01:1531,619-17
5 Sept 2026, 20:5931,636-3
3 Sept 2026, 20:2131,639-3
2 Sept 2026, 12:1431,642-11
1 Sept 2026, 08:5531,653-3
31 Aug 2026, 12:2631,656-11
30 Aug 2026, 10:5631,667-5
29 Aug 2026, 14:2631,672-15
28 Aug 2026, 16:0331,687-11
27 Aug 2026, 15:4431,698-4
26 Aug 2026, 17:3531,702+3
25 Aug 2026, 14:3331,699-15
24 Aug 2026, 13:0831,714-7
22 Aug 2026, 23:5531,721-6
21 Aug 2026, 10:1831,727first reading

Engagement

328 posts held, back to 5 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 68 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
5.08%
avg views ÷ 31,583 subscribers
Avg views / post
1,610
170 posts measured
Reaction rate
2.04%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
170
of 328 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 168 of 170 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 21 September 2026
Posts held328 (5 August 202621 September 2026)
Views total272,937
Reactions total5,561
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken21 Sept 2026, 18:15 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
10,000
Videos
10,900
Links
48,400

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 21 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.

Video runtime
3h 26m
Average length
1m 38s

Measured directly from 126 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

11,008 reactions across 320 posts, in 6 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 28.1% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
3,09628.1%
👍2,69224.5%
👎1,93117.5%
👏1,77916.2%
🔥1,38512.6%
🥰1251.14%

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 325 of the 328 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 11,178 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 328 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 21 September 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

21 Sept 2026, 18:06 UTC144 views4 reactionsread 21 September 2026
Photo

Russia Prepares Massive Boost in Attack Drone Production Russia is preparing to significantly expand production of carbon fiber used in its Geran one-way attack drones, potentially allowing the country to add about 28,000 airframes to its annual output, according to an investigation by Politico based on alleged leaked Russian corporate and construction documents. The expansion centers on the Alabuga-Volokno factory

👏3🔥1

21 Sept 2026, 18:00 UTC183 viewsread 21 September 2026
Photo

Military Situation In Yemen On September 21, 2026 (Map Update)

21 Sept 2026, 16:31 UTC725 views25 reactionsread 21 September 2026
Photo

Russian Air Defenses Downed Large Bomber Drone During Recent Attack On Moscow (Video) Ukraine used an E-300 Enterprise drone carrying a FAB-250 bomb in its latest attack on Moscow, but Russian air defenses shot it down before it reached its target. Footage of the E-300 wreckage, with the bomb mounted beneath its fuselage, surfaced online on September 21. The location of the shootdown and the intended target were no

👍193👏3

21 Sept 2026, 14:01 UTC≈1,180 views21 reactionsread 21 September 2026
Photo

Iran Shot Down Drone, Decoy Amid Increase in U.S. Activity Near Hormuz (Video, Photos) Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on September 21 that its forces shot down another United States "MQ-1" drone over the Strait of Hormuz, the latest in a series of reported American drone interceptions. The IRGC said in a statement that its Aerospace Force intercepted and destroyed the drone with a newly deploy

🔥138

21 Sept 2026, 11:41 UTC≈1,510 views45 reactionsread 21 September 2026
Photo

Russian Strikes Killed Ukraine's Steel Industry Russian ballistic missile strikes have shut down Ukraine's three remaining major steel plants, putting about 90% of the country's steel production capacity out of operation, the Financial Times reported on September 20. The plants, Zaporizhstal, Kametstal and ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, were hit in a series of attacks earlier this month. The strikes damaged blast furnac

25👏14🔥5👍1

21 Sept 2026, 10:49 UTC≈1,590 views36 reactionsread 21 September 2026
Photo

Russia Improved Design Of 'Geran-5' Jet Drone (Photos) Recent footage of the Geran-5 indicates that Russia has introduced a significant redesign of the jet-powered one-way attack drone only months after it was first publicly shown, moving the engine inside the fuselage and altering the aircraft's external shape. The change was identified in footage showing Ukrainian attempts to intercept several Geran-5 drones that

👍29🥰32👏2

21 Sept 2026, 08:18 UTC≈1,770 views32 reactionsread 21 September 2026
Photo

Two More Ammunition Depots Explode in Syria, Killing 11 (Videos) Two ammunition depots in Syria have exploded within three days, killing 11 people and injuring at least 13, adding to three earlier blasts this month. The latest explosion occurred on September 21 at an ammunition depot near al-Eis in southern Aleppo countryside, according to Syrian state media. At least four people were injured. A series of secondar

👎29👍2🔥1

20 Sept 2026, 21:52 UTC≈2,540 views56 reactionsread 21 September 2026

Posted without readable text

29🔥19👍5👎3

20 Sept 2026, 19:28 UTC≈1,890 views32 reactionsread 21 September 2026
Photo

Military Situation In Ukraine And Ukrainian Attacks On Russian Territory On September 20, 2026 (Maps Update)

17👏10👍5

20 Sept 2026, 18:17 UTC≈2,030 views44 reactionsread 21 September 2026

Posted without readable text

👎384🔥1🥰1

20 Sept 2026, 16:25 UTC≈2,210 views20 reactionsread 21 September 2026
Photo

Military Situation In Yemen On September 20, 2026 (Map Update)

🔥18👍2

20 Sept 2026, 08:49 UTC≈2,600 views64 reactionsread 21 September 2026
Video

Saudi Arabia Attacked Yemen With Shahed Drone Clone For First Time (Videos) Saudi Arabia has used its SKYWASP one-way attack drone in a strike on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, marking the first known combat use of the newly developed system by the kingdom. The drone was spotted flying over the Houthi-held capital on September 18 as Saudi Arabia intensified its air campaign against the group following its recent advanc

👎576🔥1

Showing the 12 most recent of 328 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.

Forward network

Republishes

Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.

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 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.

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.

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 13 September 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 18 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence” (@southfronteng), 31,583 subscribers as measured 18 September 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.