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Russia says it struck data centre in Kyiv used by Ukraine's military

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Countries
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Merged into Russia says it struck data centres and a cargo ship in Ukraine

Interfax Russia · Russian 10 Oct, 16:03 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Azərbaycan (1) · +0 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 22 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Interfax, 10 Oct, 16:03 UTC.
  2. Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 10 Oct, 16:03 UTC.
  3. Second country: Azerbaijan, with APA.az.
  4. Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

22 of 22 hours

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The 2 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Europe 6 outlets · 2 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. Interfax 10 Oct, 16:03 UTC
  2. Fontanka +3m
  3. Moscow 24 +18m
  4. Vedomosti +26m
  5. Kommersant +37m

Latest arrivals

  1. APA.az 11 Oct, 07:17 UTC
  2. Kommersant 10 Oct, 16:39 UTC
  3. Vedomosti 10 Oct, 16:29 UTC
  4. Moscow 24 10 Oct, 16:21 UTC
  5. Fontanka 10 Oct, 16:06 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 2 countries. 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
Europe 2: Azerbaijan, Russia. 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
Azerbaijani, Russian.
Timeline
Earliest article Interfax, 10 Oct 2026, 16:03 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 16:20 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 07:17 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
None of its own. It was merged into Russia says it struck data centres and a cargo ship in Ukraine, and the map counts it only inside that story. 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.
Chain
Merged into Russia says it struck data centres and a cargo ship in Ukraine. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.

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Started 10 Oct, 16:20 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 07:17 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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  • APA.az Azerbaijan 11 Oct, 07:17 UTC
    Ukrayna Rusiyanın strateji raket obyektinə zərbə endirib
  • Kommersant Russia 10 Oct, 16:39 UTC
    Минобороны России отчиталось об ударе по дата-центру «АТМ Укрсиббанка» в Киеве
  • Vedomosti Russia 10 Oct, 16:29 UTC
    Армия России поразила в Киеве используемый ВСУ центр обработки данных
  • Moscow 24 Russia 10 Oct, 16:21 UTC
    ВС РФ поразили дата-центр с разведданными в Киеве
  • Fontanka Russia 10 Oct, 16:06 UTC
    Минобороны РФ отчиталось об ударе по Киеву
  • Interfax Russia 10 Oct, 16:03 UTC
    Минобороны РФ сообщило о поражении дата-центра в Киеве
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