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Russian strikes damage Ukraine power grid

Rank
Running
18h
Updated
11h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
6
Regions
2
Countries
5
Languages
5

Ukrinform Ukraine · English 9 Oct, 12:04 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Français (2) · Español (1) · Lietuvių (1) · Română (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 19 hours.

2 4 6
0h 6h 12h 18h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: 15min, 9 Oct, 10:58 UTC.
  2. Second country: France, with Le Figaro.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 9 Oct, 10:58 UTC.
  4. Second region: Americas, with El Comercio.
  5. Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

19 of 19 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%83%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 4 countries · 83%

First movers

  1. 15min 9 Oct, 10:58 UTC
  2. Le Figaro +59m
  3. Ukrinform +1h 6m
  4. HotNews +3h 7m
  5. El Comercio +3h 48m

Latest arrivals

  1. Le Monde 9 Oct, 18:11 UTC
  2. El Comercio 9 Oct, 14:45 UTC
  3. HotNews 9 Oct, 14:05 UTC
  4. Ukrinform 9 Oct, 12:04 UTC
  5. Le Figaro 9 Oct, 11:57 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 1 state-owned, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Peru. Europe 4: France, Lithuania, Romania, Ukraine. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Spanish, French, Lithuanian, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article 15min, 9 Oct 2026, 10:58 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 11:00 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 18:11 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, Ukraine. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.44, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
9 Oct 2026 151 4.81 6 5 6 5 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 9 Oct, 11:00 UTC · Updated 18:11 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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  • Le Monde France 9 Oct, 18:11 UTC
    EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : près de 26 000 foyers privés d’électricité à la suite de bombardements russes dans la région de Dnipropetrovsk
  • El Comercio Peru 9 Oct, 14:45 UTC
    Zelensky dice que ataques rusos han dañado gravemente la red eléctrica
  • HotNews Romania 9 Oct, 14:05 UTC
    Recentele atacuri ale Rusiei au provocat pagube considerabile rețelei electrice din Ucraina, spune Zelenski. De ce îl critică pe primarul Kievului
  • Ukrinform Ukraine 9 Oct, 12:04 UTC
    Russian strikes cause extensive damage to Ukraine's power grid – president
  • Le Figaro France 9 Oct, 11:57 UTC
    Guerre en Ukraine : les récentes frappes russes ont causé des «dommages considérables» au réseau électrique, selon Volodymyr Zelensky
  • 15min Lithuania 9 Oct, 10:58 UTC
    Volodymyras Zelenskis: Rusijos smūgiai padarė didelę žalą Ukrainos elektros tinklui
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