Francesca Ebel

@FrancescaEbel · Moscow, Russia · joined 26 Aug 2011

Correspondent @washingtonpost covering Russia and Ukraine | Formerly @AP in Tunis. insta: @francesca_ebel Напишите мне: Francesca.Ebel@washpost.com

16 320Followers

2 112Following

7 912Posts total

552.4KViews on collected posts

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

4.6K16 Sep

17.8K19 Sep

654

85424 Sep

1.6K1 Oct

4525 Oct

494.7K6 Feb

10.4K

8.4K

3K7 Feb

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.37%16 Sep

0.61%19 Sep

0.92%

0.12%24 Sep

0.44%1 Oct

11.11%25 Oct

2.38%6 Feb

6.07%

5.19%

5.77%

4.40%7 Feb

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes74.3%10 487 in total

Reposts19.5%2 747 in total

Replies2.6%371 in total

Quotes0.7%93 in total

Bookmarks3.0%420 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@FrancescaEbel You are an enormous loss to the post - if you’d like to contribute articles I would love to collaborate. Stay safe 🫡 3K views · 124 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies 07 Feb 2026 · Open on X →

Special mention to my exceptional colleagues covering Russia and Ukraine - what an honor it has been to work with you @maryilyushina @RobynDixon__ @CatherineBelton @siobhan_ogrady @lizziejohnsonnn @PaulSchemm @herszenhorn 8.4K views · 438 likes · 35 reposts · 8 replies 06 Feb 2026 · Open on X →

This job has changed my life. It has been an immense privilege to work at this newspaper w such brilliant, talented journalists, editors & local staff. Our recent coverage of Ukraine, Russia, Sudan, Gaza, Venezuela, South Korea, Iran etc will forever be a source of great pri 10.4K views · 507 likes · 28 reposts · 5 replies 06 Feb 2026 · Open on X →

I am so sorry to our readers who looked to us for our international coverage. I am grateful to all the extremely brave, courageous people who spoke to me for my reporting in Russia and Ukraine. I am heartbroken to be losing such an incredible journalist family. 10.4K views · 572 likes · 47 reposts · 12 replies 06 Feb 2026 · Open on X →

Have been too shattered to write this but for the sake of clarity — I have also been laid off by the Post. I was one of the few journalists still working inside Russia. My last story went on the front page and featured rare testimonies from wounded soldiers criticizing the war. h 494.7K views · 8.8K likes · 2.6K reposts · 324 replies 06 Feb 2026 · Open on X →

@FrancescaEbel @washingtonpost "Putin wants"... Ничего ты не понимаешь в России, девочка. Ни-че-го. 45 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 25 Oct 2024 · Open on X →

It was Ukraine’s ‘safe’ city. Then his whole family died. The story of a man who lost his whole family in a single Russian strike -- by @lizziejohnsonnn & Kostiantyn Khudov https://t.co/VWxfDjpfVL 1.6K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 01 Oct 2024 · Open on X →

“I hope there will be” a war, Limor Zinor said. “So there is quiet.” Israel vows to return people north. Many residents see war as only way -- story from Shlomi by @MiriamABerger & Heidi Levine https://t.co/Kwtv6I1aRp 854 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 24 Sep 2024 · Open on X →

@washingtonpost Special thanks to @herszenhorn, @WendyGalietta, Nanna Heitmann, Natalia Abbakumova @RobynDixon__ for editing and reporting support! 654 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies 19 Sep 2024 · Open on X →

Putin wants Russia’s youth to become ultranationalist patriots. Many are all in. My latest piece from Russia on a new wartime generation of Russian youth, self dividing into conformists & outcasts -- for @washingtonpost 'Russia, Remastered' series https://t.co/VTqgVp1SYE 17.8K views · 70 likes · 26 reposts · 11 replies 19 Sep 2024 · Open on X →

‘Sprinkled with our blood’: Why so many Ukrainians resist land for peace Ukraine is under pressure to cut a deal to end the war, especially if Trump wins, but there is likely to be fierce opposition frm Donbas soldiers who have been fighting for a decade https://t.co/R9BGbnpUB4 4.6K views · 13 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 16 Sep 2024 · Open on X →

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