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ISW: Putin's claims about Russian territorial gains are fabricated

Rank
Ran
31h
Updated
36h ago
Final
Outlets
10
Regions
1
Countries
8
Languages
8

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Ukrinform Ukraine · English 3 Oct, 13:03 UTC

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Read it also in Deutsch (2) · Română (2) · Lietuvių (1) · Norsk (1) · Polski (1) · Русский (1) · Українська (1) · +6 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 32 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Blick, 3 Oct, 01:47 UTC.
  2. Second country: Ukraine, with Unian.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 3 Oct, 12:44 UTC.
  4. Last article: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

33 of 33 hours

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The 8 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 10 outlets · 8 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. Blick 3 Oct, 01:47 UTC
  2. Unian +5h 37m
  3. Novaya Gazeta Europe +10h 57m
  4. Ukrinform +11h 15m
  5. Digi24 +12h 40m

Last to join

  1. Wirtualna Polska 4 Oct, 09:52 UTC
  2. Der Spiegel 4 Oct, 07:22 UTC
  3. VG 3 Oct, 19:34 UTC
  4. Adevărul 3 Oct, 16:39 UTC
  5. 15min 3 Oct, 15:03 UTC

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 8 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 1 state-owned, 9 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 8: Germany, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, 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
German, English, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian.
Timeline
Earliest article Blick, 3 Oct 2026, 01:47 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 02:20 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 09:52 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 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
0.00, 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
3 Oct 2026 131 6.00 8 6 8 6 4.0
4 Oct 2026 321 2.52 10 8 2 2 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 3 Oct, 02:20 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 09:52 UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Europe 10 outlets

  • Wirtualna Polska Poland 4 Oct, 09:52 UTC
    Władimir Putin ogłasza zdobycze. ISW: "wypowiedzi tworzą fikcyjny obraz"
  • Der Spiegel Germany 4 Oct, 07:22 UTC
    Ukraine-Russland-Krieg: US-Thinktank vergleicht Putins Berichte über Geländegewinne mit »Halluzinationen«
  • VG Norway 3 Oct, 19:34 UTC
    Tenke­tank: Putins krigs­tall ligner «hallusinasjoner»
  • Adevărul Romania 3 Oct, 16:39 UTC
    Declarațiile lui Putin despre câștigurile Rusiei pe front sunt prezentate „într-o manieră ruptă de realitate”. ISW: „Seamănă cu niște halucinații”
  • 15min Lithuania 3 Oct, 15:03 UTC
    „Visiškos haliucinacijos“: JAV analitikai įvertino Putino pasisakymus apie Rusijos laimėjimus fronte
  • Digi24 Romania 3 Oct, 14:27 UTC
    Declarațiile lui Putin sunt atât de nerealiste încât par niște halucinații (ISW)
  • Ukrinform Ukraine 3 Oct, 13:03 UTC
    Putin claims Russia seized 1,301 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory in September, sharply diverging from ISW data
  • Novaya Gazeta Europe Russia 3 Oct, 12:44 UTC
    ISW: Россия теряет захваченные земли в Украине
  • Unian Ukraine 3 Oct, 07:25 UTC
    Заяви Путіна про успіхи росіян на фронті нагадують галюцинації, - ISW
  • Blick Switzerland 3 Oct, 01:47 UTC
    Putins Frontzahlen gleichen «Halluzinationen»
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