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Czech PM says nation ready to defend Baltic states if Russia attacks

Rank
Ran
43h
Updated
4d ago
Final
Outlets
8
Regions
3
Countries
7
Languages
5

+0

The Jerusalem Post Israel · English 29 Sept, 16:10 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Română (2) · Lietuvių (1) · Polski (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · +3 languages

Read at The Jerusalem Post

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 43 hours.

2 4 6 8
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Jerusalem Post, 29 Sept, 16:10 UTC.
  2. Second country: Romania, with Digi24.
  3. Second region: Europe, with Digi24.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 29 Sept, 16:10 UTC.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

44 of 44 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

13%62%25%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 4 countries · 62%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 25%

First movers

  1. The Jerusalem Post 29 Sept, 16:10 UTC
  2. Digi24 +12m
  3. HotNews +1h 13m
  4. LRT +16h 26m
  5. ERT +17h 57m

Last to join

  1. Zambian Observer 1 Oct, 11:12 UTC
  2. Anadolu Agency 30 Sept, 15:23 UTC
  3. Onet 30 Sept, 12:30 UTC
  4. ERT 30 Sept, 10:06 UTC
  5. LRT 30 Sept, 08:36 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 7 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 1 state-owned, 2 public-service, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Zambia. Europe 4: Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Romania. Middle East 2: Israel, Turkey. 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
Greek, English, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article The Jerusalem Post, 29 Sept 2026, 16:10 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 16:10 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 11:12 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
30 Sept 2026 315 4.01 7 6 4 4 4.0
1 Oct 2026 392 3.23 8 7 1 1 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 16:10 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 11:12 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Zambian Observer Zambia 1 Oct, 11:12 UTC
    CZECHIA PREPARES TWO BRIGADES FOR POSSIBLE DEFENSE OF THE BALTICS

Europe 5 outlets

  • Onet Poland 30 Sept, 12:30 UTC
    Czechy składają deklarację w sprawie Rosji i NATO. "Podjęlibyśmy aktywne działania"
  • ERT Greece 30 Sept, 10:06 UTC
    Αντρέι Μπάμπις: Η Τσεχία θα είναι έτοιμη να απαντήσει σε περίπτωση που η Ρωσία επιτεθεί στις χώρες της Βαλτικής
  • LRT Lithuania 30 Sept, 08:36 UTC
    Babišas: jei Rusija užpultų Baltijos šalis, Čekija jų ginti siųstų dvi brigadas
  • HotNews Romania 29 Sept, 17:22 UTC
    Cehia ar răspunde în cazul unui atac al Rusiei asupra unei țări baltice, dă asigurări premierul Andrej Babis
  • Digi24 Romania 29 Sept, 16:22 UTC
    Cehia susține că ar fi gata să-și onoreze angajamentele față de NATO dacă Rusia atacă o țară baltică: „Desigur că ne pregătim”

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 30 Sept, 15:23 UTC
    Czechia to send 2 brigades to defend Baltics in event of Russian attack, premier says
  • The Jerusalem Post Israel 29 Sept, 16:10 UTC
    Czech Republic would be ready to respond if Russia attacks Baltic countries, Czech PM Babis says
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