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Russia strikes Ukrainian ships and infrastructure in Black Sea

Rank
Running
16h
Updated
6h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
8
Regions
2
Countries
5
Languages
5

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Splash247 Singapore · English 5 Oct, 08:00 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Русский (3) · Polski (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · Српски (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 17 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: ERT, 5 Oct, 06:29 UTC.
  2. Second country: Poland, with Gazeta Wyborcza.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Splash247.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 5 Oct, 15:54 UTC.
  5. Now: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

18 of 18 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

13%87%

  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Europe 7 outlets · 4 countries · 87%

First movers

  1. ERT 5 Oct, 06:29 UTC
  2. Gazeta Wyborcza +50m
  3. Splash247 +1h 31m
  4. TASS +2h 18m
  5. Blic +4h 18m

Latest arrivals

  1. Kommersant 5 Oct, 16:47 UTC
  2. Vedomosti 5 Oct, 16:04 UTC
  3. Interfax 5 Oct, 15:54 UTC
  4. Blic 5 Oct, 10:47 UTC
  5. TASS 5 Oct, 08:46 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Russia attacks civilian ship in Odesa port, kills one sailor, 3 to 5 Oct 2026, 16 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: Singapore. Europe 4: Greece, Poland, Russia, Serbia. 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, Polish, Russian, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article ERT, 5 Oct 2026, 06:29 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 07:10 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 16:47 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
0.77, 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
Continues Russia attacks civilian ship in Odesa port, kills one sailor. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 5 Oct, 07:10 UTC · Updated 16:47 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Splash247 Singapore 5 Oct, 08:00 UTC
    Russia hits another four ships in the Black Sea

Europe 7 outlets

  • Kommersant Russia 5 Oct, 16:47 UTC
    Минобороны России отчиталось об ударе по судну в Одесской области
  • Vedomosti Russia 5 Oct, 16:04 UTC
    Российская армия ударила по украинскому сухогрузу в порту Южный
  • Interfax Russia 5 Oct, 15:54 UTC
    В порту Южный беспилотниками поражён сухогруз с имуществом для ВСУ
  • Blic Serbia 5 Oct, 10:47 UTC
    RUSKI UDAR NA UKRAJINSKE LUKE I ENERGETIKU Žestoki napadi u Odesi, Moskva krivi Zelenskog za eskalaciju - OPASNO SE ZAKUVAVA!
  • TASS Russia 5 Oct, 08:46 UTC
    Russian forces hit power substation in Kharkov Region, port facility in Odessa Region
  • Gazeta Wyborcza Poland 5 Oct, 07:19 UTC
    Rosyjskie MON: Zaatakowaliśmy ukraińskie statki na Morzu Czarnym
  • ERT Greece 5 Oct, 06:29 UTC
    Νέα ρωσικά πλήγματα στην Ουκρανία: Χτυπήθηκαν δύο φορτηγά πλοία στη Μαύρη Θάλασσα
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