Jimmy Rushton ✓

@JimmySecUK · Kyiv · joined 29 Dec 2015

Kyiv based foreign policy/security analyst Currently focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine Special Correspondent @KyivIndependent - opinions mine alone

112 278Followers

902Following

76 893Posts total

348.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views17 620this account7 037median for 100K–1M

Reach, %15.69%this account2.88%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %4.65%this account1.40%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	17 620	7 037	2.50×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	15.69%	2.88%	5.45×
Engagement rate	4.65%	1.40%	3.33×

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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

29K28 Aug

255.9K

20.5K

14.8K29 Aug

14.7K

13.3K1 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

4.53%28 Aug

0.27%

7.12%

5.25%29 Aug

2.20%

4.77%1 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes76.3%4 007 in total

Reposts14.6%766 in total

Replies6.1%321 in total

Quotes1.9%101 in total

Bookmarks1.0%54 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

It’s incredibly refreshing to see formal declarations of culpability in these cases. 13.3K views · 569 likes · 61 reposts · 6 replies 01 Sep 2026 It’s a beautiful day in Kyiv but the air is still heavy with smoke from Russian missile and drone strikes over the past few days. At least 37 were killed in one strike alone. 14.7K views · 256 likes · 61 reposts · 5 replies 29 Aug 2026 This dimwitted nonsense should be called out for what it is; a call to appease Putin’s Russia at the expense of Ukraine. https://t.co/T37eDs9vhF 14.8K views · 654 likes · 91 reposts · 26 replies 29 Aug 2026 Utterly pathetic. Refusing to name the country - Russia - that deliberately targeted and destroyed their own warehouse. 20.5K views · 1.2K likes · 248 reposts · 7 replies 28 Aug 2026 Yesterday, life-saving supplies for children and families were destroyed in an attack that impacted a UNICEF-contracted warehouse in Chubynske, Kyiv region. This impedes the delivery of vital support to the most vulnerable, especially as another harsh winter approaches. https:// 255.9K views · 252 likes · 94 reposts · 256 replies 28 Aug 2026 That’s because Healey’s resignation was never about defence spending, as pretty much everyone knows. It was a way to fatally damage Starmer and help Andy Burnham become Prime Minister. Burnham then made him Chancellor as part of this quid pro quo. 29K views · 1.1K likes · 211 reposts · 21 replies 28 Aug 2026