📰 Besides Russia, two other countries are simultaneously discussing restricting/blocking Telegram.

🇺🇦 Ukraine. A terrorist attack on February 22 occurred in Lviv. According to Mayor Sadovyi, a police officer was lured at the scene of the explosion with a false alarm claiming 15 civilians had been killed, some seriously injured. Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Iryna Vereshchuk stated that the messaging app is being used to recruit and coordinate terrorists. She argued that if this poses a security threat, the platform's capabilities should be restricted. Ukrainian Interior Minister Klymenko has stated that Telegram needs to be slowed down, but not blocked entirely.

🇵🇭 Philippines. Henry Aguda (Minister of Information and Communications) stated that the messaging app's reputation for promoting pornography, gambling, deepfakes, and financial fraud was cited as the reason for blocking it in the country. The ministry has encountered coordination issues with Telegram's management, which complicates the enforcement of local regulations. The Prime Minister stated that the department will contact representatives of other platforms to combat illegal activities.

📰 Telegram is testing background file sending on iPhones, @durovs_code found out! We've been needing this for years.

😃 However, it will only be supported on devices running iOS 26+. File sending status is supported in Dynamic Island.

😀 Video example of the new "Date" formatting.

@NewsAndTipsNT 📰

✈️ Telegram For Android
◾️ Version: 12.5.0
◾️ Build: 6573

Directly downloadable from :

• http://telegram.org/android
• https://telegram.org/dl/android/apk
• https://t.me/TAndroidAPK

OR

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.messenger

What's New:

- https://t.me/NewsAndTipsNT/s/239

#Stable #New #Telegram

🔄Previous Version

Bot API 9.5

🗓 Date and Time Formatting
• Introduced date and time formatting, allowing bots to show a formatted date and time to the user.
• Out-of-the-box support for relative times, localized weekdays and more.

👑 Custom Member Tags
• Introduced support for custom group member tags.
• Bots can now detect member tags, assign them, or allow admins to manage them.

📝 Message Streaming
• With today's update, every bot on Telegram can freely use the message streaming feature.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#march-1-2026

Source : 💌💌💌