A Zaporizhzhia drone trap gives The Sun's Battle Plans a tenfold start

A second fast-moving episode of the war series arrived while the tabloid's channel, and most big news broadcasters around it, drew fewer views than usual.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 484,215 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (47,940).

EXPOSED: Drone trap annihilates Russian armoured offensive in Zaporizhzhia | Battle Plans

What comes after a Battle Plans episode that led The Sun's Ukraine coverage only days ago? Another one. "EXPOSED: Drone trap annihilates Russian armoured offensive in Zaporizhzhia | Battle Plans" went up on Tuesday and passed 320,000 views in its first eleven hours. That puts it on course for about ten times the first day of a typical new upload on the channel.

It is moving against the grain. The British tabloid's channel as a whole is running below its normal daily views. So are most of the large news broadcasters near its size, The Wall Street Journal and The Telegraph among them.

Battle Plans is the paper's series on the war in Ukraine. This installment is set in Zaporizhzhia, a region in the country's southeast that has been on the front line since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. The title credits drones with stopping an armored Russian push there, and viewers have answered with thousands of likes and several hundred comments.

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The numbers

The figures show a new episode far outrunning the channel's usual first day, on a day when the channel as a whole ran below its normal pace.

the video's first day

usual first day here

47,940

this video

484,215

subscribers

6,540,000

total views

5,723,411,060

views per day

1,007,111

typical day: 1,327,701

the video

views

322,864

likes

7,804

comments

457

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

News Central

6,960,000

60 Minutes Australia

6,740,000

The Wall Street Journal

6,700,000

The Sun

6,540,000

News24

6,250,000

The Telegraph

6,200,000

As of September 30, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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