Rob Lee ✓

@RALee85 · joined 03 Nov 2015

Senior Fellow @FPRI. Previously @USMC, @ColumbiaSIPA, @CentreAST. Focused on Russian defense policy.

703 027Followers

3 910Following

77 824Posts total

3MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

21 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views46 909this account4 270median for 100K–1M

Reach, %6.67%this account1.71%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.50%this account1.42%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	46 909	4 270	11.0×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.67%	1.71%	3.90×
Engagement rate	0.50%	1.42%	0.35×

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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

11313 Jul

22K29 Aug

355.5K

2.5K

6.8K

2.7K

30.5K1 Sep

57.3K

148.6K2 Sep

33K

3.9K

1.3K

2.8K

46.9K4 Sep

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.00%13 Jul

0.10%29 Aug

0.33%

0.83%

0.46%

0.95%

0.88%1 Sep

1.09%

0.56%2 Sep

0.77%

1.35%

0.63%

0.50%

0.90%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.42%.

What the audience does

Likes71.4%10 776 in total

Reposts12.3%1 858 in total

Replies1.6%237 in total

Quotes1.6%240 in total

Bookmarks13.2%1 989 in total

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

Followers by day

3 Sep6 Sep

Daily snapshots since 03 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

A Russian drone hit the office of the head of SBU, Oleksandr Poklad, in the center of Kyiv, according to @pravda_eng . Poklad was not in the office at the time of the strike. https://t.co/PU0EhAolND https://t.co/Y8rhqmsB8n https://t.co/h1fc89o4EP 46.9K views · 310 likes · 83 reposts · 16 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@RALee85 Appalling. The kind of thing that happens in tinpot Third World countries. Saying that literally, descriptively, not just pejoratively. Dreadful. 2.8K views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@RALee85 The snake is starting to eat its tail. 1.3K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@RALee85 “Russian opposition political movement” is a cute way to describe RDK, a russian Nazi volunteer unit made up of Russian born neo-nazis exiled from Russia by Putin 3.9K views · 49 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

President Zelensky has appointed Brigadier General Svyatoslav Zaits, the former commander of the 20th Army Corps, as the new commander of the Ground Forces. https://t.co/B517qn530s https://t.co/OawZXcxjOB 33K views · 227 likes · 22 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Police in Kyiv blocked off a street where a shoot out and stand off occurred between members of the SBU and GUR. 3 GUR officers were reportedly wounded. Yesterday, GUR’s Russian Volunteers Corps said that’s its deputy commander had been abducted by unknown individuals, and SBU 148.6K views · 689 likes · 114 reposts · 18 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

“The situation is particularly difficult around Sloviansk, one of the largest Ukrainian-controlled cities remaining in Donetsk Oblast. Russian positions are now seven to 10 kilometers (4–6 miles) from Sloviansk on the Lyman axis, Mayor Vadym Liakh said. Russian artillery is http 57.3K views · 510 likes · 100 reposts · 10 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Geolocations show Russian infiltration groups in Hannivka, northeast of Dobropillia, and less than 6km to the southwest of Druzhkivka. 30.5K views · 238 likes · 29 reposts · 3 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@RALee85 800K and they can try 2.7K views · 26 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@RALee85 Ukrainian military and foreign intelligence said this week that the Russian General Staff has prepared a scenario to mobilize another 600,000 people over the next two years: 300,000 in 2026 and 300,000 in 2027. 6.8K views · 21 likes · 7 reposts · 3 replies 29 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@RALee85 again 800 000 dead russians? russia stop killing your own citizens. Make peace. 2.5K views · 19 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 29 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

“Ukraine has received intelligence that Russia is preparing for a possible new ground offensive toward Kyiv as well as Chernihiv in the nation’s far north, a top official said. There are no concrete dates or signs that Russian striking units are gathering near Ukraine’s https:/ 355.5K views · 904 likes · 229 reposts · 25 replies 29 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

🇷🇺 Russia may be preparing for another major mobilization after September's elections. Ukrainian military and foreign intelligence said this week that the Russian General Staff has prepared a scenario to mobilize another 600,000 people over the next two years: 300,000 in 2026 ht 22K views · 11 likes · 7 reposts · 2 replies 29 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

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Last month, I interviewed Lieutenant Colonel Vladyslav "Shram" Tovstyi, the commander of the 38th Marine Brigade's (@38obrmp) Corsair UAS Battalion for the Ukraine Military Podcast. (00:00) Introduction (03:35) The background of the Corsair Battalion (04:40) What is the current 179.6K views · 362 likes · 185 reposts · 2 replies 10 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

3/ https://t.co/Jgca7XTBud 49K views · 233 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies 08 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

2/ https://t.co/OdlJN1HKhg 59.9K views · 234 likes · 8 reposts · 2 replies 08 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

@RALee85 @eric_hontz From October: The shift came after a phone call between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in July, when the FT reported the US president asked whether Ukraine could strike Moscow if Washington provided long-range weapons. Trump signalled his backing for a 74.8K views · 203 likes · 26 reposts · 2 replies 08 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

From December: "But in secret, the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. military, with his blessing, supercharged a Ukrainian campaign of drone strikes on Russian oil facilities and tankers to hobble Mr. Putin’s war machine... As the campaign began to show results, Mr. http 1.2M views · 4.7K likes · 738 reposts · 102 replies 08 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

ANKARA—Trump Says He Supports Ukrainian Long-Range Strikes Deep Inside Russia In his warmest meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump said he would let Kyiv produce U.S. Patriot missiles to defend against Russian ballistic attacks 542.3K views · 640 likes · 73 reposts · 15 replies 08 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

"Ukraine is striking Russian energy infrastructure at an unprecedented rate, according to an FT data analysis showing that Kyiv’s intensified drone campaign is spurring Russia’s worst fuel crisis in decades... Analysts attribute the growing success of Ukraine’s drone campaign to 185.1K views · 1.4K likes · 227 reposts · 25 replies 05 Jul 2026 · Open on X →