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Zelensky Claims North Korea Preparing 10,000 More Troops for Russia

Rank
Ran: 22h
Updated: 6d ago
Final
Outlets: 57
Regions: 5
Countries: 36
Languages: 23

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: NV, 28 Sept, 18:39 UTC.
Second country: Turkey, with Anadolu Agency.
Second region: Middle East, with Anadolu Agency.
Fastest hour: +10 outlets from 29 Sept, 03:37 UTC.
Last article: 57 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 36 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

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Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 2%
Americas 7 outlets · 4 countries · 12%
Asia-Pacific 14 outlets · 10 countries · 25%
Europe 27 outlets · 14 countries · 47%
Middle East 7 outlets · 6 countries · 12%
International 1 outlet · 2%

First movers

NV 28 Sept, 18:39 UTC
Ukrainska Pravda +3m
Anadolu Agency +51m
Unian +1h 23m
Ukrinform +1h 39m

Last to join

UzA 29 Sept, 18:13 UTC
Zambian Observer 29 Sept, 12:41 UTC
El Comercio 29 Sept, 12:01 UTC
RPP 29 Sept, 10:45 UTC
14ymedio 29 Sept, 10:42 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 57 outlets in 36 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 57 outlets, 4 state-owned, 1 public-service, 52 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Zambia. Americas 4: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Peru. Asia-Pacific 10: Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, South Korea, Taiwan, Uzbekistan. Europe 14: Austria, Czechia, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 6: Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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: Arabic, Czech, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Latvian, Malay, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article NV, 28 Sept 2026, 18:39 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 19:40 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 18:13 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 International. 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 now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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

28 Sept 2026 78 12.56 14 8 14 8 3.3

29 Sept 2026 23 33.94 57 36 42 32 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 19:40 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 18:13 UTC

Covered by 57 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
28 Sept 2026	78	12.56	14	8	14	8	3.3
29 Sept 2026	23	33.94	57	36	42	32	3.3 → 4.0

Covered by 57 outlets

Africa 1 outlet

Americas 7 outlets

Asia-Pacific 14 outlets

Europe 27 outlets

Middle East 7 outlets

International 1 outlet