Europe / Russia · Shipping & Trade

Tanker catches fire in Black Sea near Sochi

Rank
Running: 13h
Updated: 28m ago
Momentum: +13%
Outlets: 6
Regions: 1
Countries: 4
Languages: 4

Merged into Ukrainian drone attack sets fire to oil tanker near Sochi

Vedomosti Russia · Russian 6 Oct, 17:31 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Latviešu (2) · +2 languages

Read at Vedomosti

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Vedomosti, 6 Oct, 17:31 UTC.
Second country: Poland, with Wirtualna Polska.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 6 Oct, 18:14 UTC.
Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 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 · 4 countries · 100%

First movers

Vedomosti 6 Oct, 17:31 UTC
Wirtualna Polska +43m
TVNET +1h 10m
Delfi (LV) +1h 13m
NRK +7h 8m

Latest arrivals

TVN24 7 Oct, 06:27 UTC
NRK 7 Oct, 00:39 UTC
Delfi (LV) 6 Oct, 18:44 UTC
TVNET 6 Oct, 18:41 UTC
Wirtualna Polska 6 Oct, 18:14 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 4 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 1 public-service, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Europe 4: Latvia, Norway, Poland, 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: Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian.
Timeline: Earliest article Vedomosti, 6 Oct 2026, 17:31 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 17:40 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 06:27 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, Russia. Topic Shipping & trade. 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: 1.34, 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.
Chain: Merged into Ukrainian drone attack sets fire to oil tanker near Sochi. 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 6 Oct, 17:40 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 06:27 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Europe 6 outlets

TVN24 Poland 7 Oct, 06:27 UTC
Pożar tankowca na Morzu Czarnym. Nagranie trafiło do sieci
NRK Norway 7 Oct, 00:39 UTC
Tankskip skal ha tatt fyr ved Sotsji
Delfi (LV) Latvia 6 Oct, 18:44 UTC
Melnajā jūrā pie Sočiem aizdedzies naftas tankkuģis
TVNET Latvia 6 Oct, 18:41 UTC
Pie Sočiem aizdedzies Krievijas "ēnu flotes" naftas tankkuģis
Wirtualna Polska Poland 6 Oct, 18:14 UTC
Pożar tankowca w pobliżu Soczi. Należał do "floty cieni"?
Vedomosti Russia 6 Oct, 17:31 UTC
Танкер загорелся в акватории Черного моря