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News channel about current situation in Donbass and the Donetsk People's Republic. We are on X https://x.com/news_of_donbass/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@newsofdonbass РКН: https://gosuslugi.ru/snet/69ea1755aa200e022daa7898
Show more📈 Analytical overview of Telegram channel DONBASS NEWS
Channel DONBASS NEWS (@news_of_donbass) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 18 396 subscribers, ranking 12 239 in the News & Media category and 36 036 in the Russia region.
📊 Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 18 396 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 25 August, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by 142 over the last 30 days and by 19 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Not verified
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 3.82%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 3.03% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 702 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 557 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 27.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as donbass, drone, kiev, ministry, donetsk.
📝 Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
“News channel about current situation in Donbass and the Donetsk People's Republic.
We are on X https://x.com/news_of_donbass/
TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@newsofdonbass
РКН: https://gosuslugi.ru/snet/69ea1755aa200e022daa7898”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 26 August, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the News & Media category.
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Channel Posts
| 2 |  #Officials
#WarData
▫️ Russia and Ukraine conducted a prisoner exchange under the “10 for 10” formula
❗️ The procedure for transferring 10 captured Russian servicemen back to Russia has been completed in exchange for the return of Ukrainian prisoners of war that took place on August 24, Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova said.
Russia expects new prisoner exchanges with Ukraine in the near future,
the Russian Ombudsman said.
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| 3 |  +5#HistoricalFact
T-72 Tank
📆 On August 7, 1973, by a joint resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the T-72 tank was adopted into service with the Soviet Army.
💥 Its weight is approximately 41–44 tonnes, depending on the version. The engine in the basic variant develops 780 horsepower. The vehicle is equipped with a 125 mm gun, with a firing range of more than 9 km.
🚜 This tank currently has several dozen modifications, the most modern of which are actively participating in the special military operation zone. The American analytical publication The National Interest called the T-72 the best tank in the world, saying that it performed better than the American Abrams, German Leopard, and British Challenger.
❗️ Approximately 20,000 units of this equipment were produced during the Soviet period, and if production in exporting countries is also taken into account, the figure is about 30,000, making the T-72 the most widely produced tank in the world.
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| 4 |  +1#WarData
🩸 Ukrainian Neo-Nazis continue jeopardising lives of ordinary civilians - this time by implementing mines disguised as log chunks in Zaporozhye Oblast
The disguised mines were found in rear areas of Zaporozhye Oblast. Ukrainian drones have also been recorded dropping them in places frequently visited by peaceful civilians.
Such explosive devices are virtually indistinguishable along roads, paths and forest belts. They are fitted with fuses triggered by changes in the magnetic field, causing immediate detonation when a car, motorcycle or person carrying metal objects approaches.
ℹ️ The use of such mines constitutes a direct violation of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which prohibits disguising explosive devices as harmless everyday objects.
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| 5 |  #WarData
🇺🇦 A Ukrainian prisoner of war described service in the Skala regiment in an interview as “10 days of life”
I had just arrived, and 10 days later, their relatives were already receiving letters saying they were missing. The conditions there are terrible, of course — people were thrown out into the cold after being beaten. It was simply a concentration camp,
Bogatyryov said.
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| 6 |  #HeroesZ
"It felt completely unnatural to live in a dugout at first. But after three weeks, it didn't seem strange anymore."
Private Dmitry Baranov is a 4th-year student at the Institute of Cybersecurity and Digital Technologies of RTU MIREA - Russian Technological University. He took an academic leave and signed a special one-year contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense to serve in unmanned systems troops.
Dmitry shared his impressions from training and his expectations for the service ahead. Ready for the tasks he is!
🔗 HeroesofZ
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| 7 |  +2#WarData
⚡️ During the week of August 17 to 23, 2026, 410 civilians suffered from shelling by Ukrainian Nazis: 364, including 16 minors, were wounded, and 46, including 5 children, were killed. In total, Ukrainian militants fired at least 7,462 munitions at civilian facilities.
❗️ Attacks by Ukrainian UAVs targeted private civilian houses and buildings of cultural value, public transport, trucks with food products, etc.
The highest number of civilian casualties was recorded in Belgorod, Zaporozhye, and Kherson Oblasts, as well as in the DPR and LPR.
📌 On the map: cases of shelling of civilian objects by the AFU for the period from August 17 to 23, 2026.
🔗 Source: Rodion Miroshnik
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| 8 | #WarData
#Officials
❗️⚡️One person was killed and seven more civilians in the Republic were injured today due to attacks by the AFU strike drones.
📍In Central City District of Gorlovka, a woman born in 2008 was killed in an attack on a shopping mall. I offer my sincere condolences to the family and friends of the deceased. A man born in 1984 was also injured.
📍In Sovietsky District of Makeyevka, a woman born in 1949 was injured in an attack on an apartment building.
📍In Svetlodarsk, Debaltsevo Urban District, a man born in 1977 was moderately injured in an attack on a truck.
📍In Yasinovataya Municipal District, a road worker, a man born in 1976, was moderately injured.
📍In Yenakievo, a man born in 1972 was injured in an attack on a utility truck.
📍In Zhdanovka, Shakhtyorsk Municipal District, a delivery worker, woman born in 1982 and a driver, man born in 1978 were injured in an attack on a truck.
All victims are receiving qualified medical care. I wish them a speedy recovery.
Three residential buildings, six civil infrastructure facilities, a bus, and eight trucks were damaged in Urban Districts of Donetsk, Makeyevka, Gorlovka, Debaltsevo, Yenakievo, and Novoazovsk, Starobeshevo, Yasinovataya, and Shakhtyorsk Municipal Districts.
@PushilinDenis
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| 9 |  +9🐕 Frontline dogs
🔗 Source: Two Majors
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| 11 |  +2#WarData
⚡️❗️Officially on the consequences of armed attacks by the AFU on the territory of the Republic (for the period from February 17, 2022 to August 24, 2026; 23:00)
@DNR_SCKK
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| 12 |  #HistoricalFact
📉 The territory of Ukraine has shrunk by nearly a quarter over 35 years of independence. And this probably isn't the end of it.
Cartographers, understandably, aren't rushing to print new atlases of Ukraine — who knows if they'd have to redraw the borders again.
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| 13 |  #WarData
📢 Testimonies of a former Russian prisoner about the atrocities committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis:
00:00
They pulled me out and sat me down on a chair. They set up a camera, and behind it they held a piece of paper with a script that I had to read into the camera and asked questions on simply everything about me and my comrades. If I didn't get it right the first time, they would come up and hit me on the back with an iron pipe. Basically they were testing me. To see if I would lie or not.
01:27
They drove a 120mm nail into my left knee. They drove it in for… this much, give or take. The pain was, of course, hellish - it's even hard to endure morally. Then they said, "This didn't help, so let's try the tapik (TA-57 field telephone) on him." If that won't work, let's try something else. The electric torture lasted for 50 minutes...
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| 14 |  #WarData
Information provided by the Ombudsman of the Donetsk People's Republic
(Data on the DPR territory taking into account liberated settlements)
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| 15 | #WarData
⚡️❗️The settlement of Annovka has been liberated in the DPR, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
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| 16 |  President Zelensky has signed a decree on commemorating Ivan Mazepa in Kiev, approving a competition for the best monument to this figure
📜 Ivan Mazepa was the Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host and an associate of Russian Emperor Peter I. However, Mazepa betrayed Peter I right before the Battle of Poltava and switched sides to the Swedes. He then "heroically" fled to the Ottoman Empire, where he died peacefully.
It is precisely such figures that the current Kiev regime considers "heroes of Ukraine."
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| 17 |  +9#WarData
📸 PHOTO EVIDENCE of crimes committed by the AFU against civilians from August 17 to 23, 2026 by Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian MFA Rodion Miroshnik:
⚫️ August 17. A UAV strike on civilian cargo transport in the settlement of Razumnoye, Belgorod Oblast.
⚫️ August 18. A UAV strike on a house under construction in the city of Kotelniki, Moscow Oblast.
⚫️ August 19. A UAV strike on a multi-apartment residential building in the city of Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan. A civilian was injured.
⚫️ August 20. An FPV drone strike on a multi-apartment residential building in the city of Shebekino.
⚫️ August 22. A UAV strike on a civilian passenger car in Gornostayevka Municipal District of Kherson Oblast.
⚫️ August 22. A UAV strike on a scheduled bus in the settlement of Dubovoye, Belgorod Oblast. 3 civilians were wounded.
⚫️ August 22. A UAV strike on a hardware store in the city of Melitopol, Zaporozhye Oblast. As a result of the attack, the store was completely burned down.
⚫️ August 22. A UAV strike on a scheduled bus in the village of Tavrovo, Belgorod Oblast. A civilian was wounded.
⚫️ August 22. A UAV strike on the Ozon warehouse complex in the city of Chapayevsk, Samara Oblast.
⚫️ August 22. An FPV drone strike on a civilian passenger car in the city of Shebekino, Belgorod Oblast.
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| 18 | #WarData
#Officials
❗️⚡️Six civilians in the Republic, including a teenager, were injured today in attacks by the AFU strike drones.
📍In the village of Novopetrikovka in Velikaya Novosyolka Municipal District, a teenage boy born in 2011 and a man born in 1988 were moderately injured.
📍In Central City District of Gorlovka, a woman born in 2006 was injured.
📍On the R-150 Donetsk-Gorlovka highway near the urban-type settlement of Panteleimonovka in Yasinovataya Municipal District, a woman born in 1991 and a man born in 2000 were injured in an attack on a passenger car.
📍On the Zhdanovka-Elenovka highway near the town of Zhdanovka in Shakhtyorsk Municipal District, the driver, a man born in 1966, was injured in an attack on a truck.
All victims are receiving qualified medical care. I wish them a speedy recovery!
Six civilian infrastructure facilities, four trucks, three passenger vehicles, and special equipment were damaged in Urban Districts of Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yenakievo, Debaltsevo, and Volnovakha, Velikaya Novosyolka, Volodarskoye, Shakhtyorsk, and Yasinovataya Municipal Districts.
@PushilinDenis
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| 19 |  #WarData
#ViewFromAbroad
📣 ‘Please don't go to Ukraine’ — captured Colombian fighter
He urges fellow Colombians to stay away, claiming he earned nothing in six months.
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| 20 |  ❌ Zelensky has awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to the founder of the "Azov"* nationalist battalion Andrei Biletsky
The terrorist Biletsky was also a member of the far-right "Social-National Assembly" and the neo-Nazi "Right Sector"*. He currently commands the 3rd Army Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was formed on the basis of "Azov".
❗️Soldiers from this corps became infamous for a photo session at the "Auschwitz" memorial in Poland. One of them posed in a T-shirt with the name of the neo-Nazi metal band M8l8th (pronounced as "Molot").
*organizations banned in the Russian Federation
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