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Situation report No.LCH-2021-0730 · opened 2021-07-30
Source: open
Relaunch
2022-06-08
Subject · war-and-politics media

Lachen
Writes

"Lachen Writes" (@lachentyt) is a Telegram channel founded 30.07.2021 as "Ukrainian political memes", which relaunched sharply on 08.06.2022 under a new name and switched from Russian to Ukrainian (the very same week — not a coincidence). From personal geopolitical commentary the channel grew into an influential war media outlet: air-raid alerts and drones, front-line losses, anti-corruption investigations (NABU, SBU), geopolitics (Trump, Zelensky, Putin). Scale is an order of magnitude beyond a typical analytics channel — the median post gathers over 17,000 reactions.
ObjectLachen Writes t.me/lachentyt
Observation period2022Q1 → 2026Q2 · 1674 days under observation
Coverage focusFrontline · Air alerts · Geopolitics · Investigations
Language statushoverRU → UK within one week (2022-06-08)

What this channel is

«Lachen Writes» (@lachentyt) is a Ukrainian war-and-politics media outlet with a massive audience (median post — over 17,000 reactions). What the channel's own data shows:

  • Founding and relaunch — the channel was created 30.07.2021 as "Ukrainian political memes"; the first real post came only on 10.01.2022. On 08.06.2022 a sharp shift happened: renamed to "Lachen Writes", and that same week the language flipped from Russian (47%) to Ukrainian (69%) — not a drift, but one deliberate relaunch.
  • From commentary to media — started as a personal geopolitical diary, grew into a source of real-time situation reports: air-raid alerts and drones, front-line casualties, prisoner exchanges, wartime diplomacy.
  • Investigations — since 2024-2025 an anti-corruption thread has grown: NABU/SAPO/DBR cases, personnel decisions, SBU detentions of recruited Russian agents.
  • Donations — regularly mobilizes the audience toward volunteer fundraisers (FPV drones, aerial reconnaissance for specific brigades).
  • Scale — 289,000 paid Telegram stars (34× a typical analytics channel) and 60,041 messages over 4.5 years without a pause.

Grand Narratives

Evolution of Top-15 narratives (share by quarter)

Top-20 narratives by message volume

Rising Declining Episodic Stable Click a bar → narrative details

Narrative shift trends

Each row is a single narrative, each cell is a quarter. The brighter the cell (from red to near-white), the more often the channel spoke about this topic that quarter. Each row is normalized to itself, so even rare topics show their own bright peaks.
On hover you'll see two figures: relative activity — how loudly this topic sounded in the given quarter compared to its own peak (100% = the topic's loudest quarter, 0% = the topic was silent); quarter share — its absolute share of all messages in that quarter.

Narrative Catalog (49)

Narrative dynamics: All Rising Declining Episodic Stable
Grand narrative: