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Multiple explosions reported in Kyiv during missile alert

Rank
Ran
45h
Updated
6d ago
Final
Outlets
11
Regions
3
Countries
10
Languages
7

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TASS Russia · English 27 Sept, 13:56 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in العربية (2) · Deutsch (1) · Eesti (1) · Italiano (1) · Polski (1) · Svenska (1) · +5 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 11 after 46 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: TASS, 27 Sept, 13:56 UTC.
  2. Second country: Poland, with Onet.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with Arab News.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 28 Sept, 22:48 UTC.
  5. Last article: 11 outlets.

Where it travelled

46 of 46 hours

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The 10 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

55%36%

  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 9%
  • Europe 6 outlets · 6 countries · 55%
  • Middle East 4 outlets · 3 countries · 36%

First movers

  1. TASS 27 Sept, 13:56 UTC
  2. Onet +21h 4m
  3. Aftonbladet +32h 52m
  4. Arab News +33h 31m
  5. Sky News Arabia +33h 43m

Last to join

  1. ORF 29 Sept, 11:40 UTC
  2. TGCOM24 29 Sept, 04:25 UTC
  3. Malay Mail 29 Sept, 01:45 UTC
  4. Postimees 29 Sept, 01:21 UTC
  5. An-Nahar 29 Sept, 00:35 UTC

The figures

Coverage
11 outlets in 10 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 11 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 9 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 6: Austria, Estonia, Italy, Poland, Russia, Sweden. Middle East 3: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates. 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, German, English, Estonian, Italian, Polish, Swedish.
Timeline
Earliest article TASS, 27 Sept 2026, 13:56 UTC. First seen 27 Sept 2026, 14:00 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 11:40 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
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.
Chain
Continued by Ουκρανία: Ισχυρές εκρήξεις στο Κίεβο – Πυρκαγιά σε κατοικημένη περιοχή. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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 157 6.55 5 5 4 4 3.3
29 Sept 2026 265 4.76 11 10 6 6 3.3 → 4.0

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Started 27 Sept, 14:00 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 11:40 UTC

Covered by 11 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Malay Mail Malaysia 29 Sept, 01:45 UTC
    Kyiv hit by explosions as missile alert sounds

Europe 6 outlets

  • ORF Austria 29 Sept, 11:40 UTC
    Mehrere Explosionen in Kiew
  • TGCOM24 Italy 29 Sept, 04:25 UTC
    Ucraina, forti esplosioni a Kiev: difese antiaeree in azione
  • Postimees Estonia 29 Sept, 01:21 UTC
    Ukraina pealinnas kärgatas taas mitu tugevat plahvatust
  • Aftonbladet Sweden 28 Sept, 22:48 UTC
    AFP: Explosioner hörs i Kiev
  • Onet Poland 28 Sept, 11:00 UTC
    Wybuch w centrum Kijowa. Kłęby dymu nad miastem
  • TASS Russia 27 Sept, 13:56 UTC
    Explosion rocks Kiev

Middle East 4 outlets

  • An-Nahar Lebanon 29 Sept, 00:35 UTC
    دويّ انفجارات عدة في كييف خلال إنذار من هجوم صاروخي
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates 29 Sept, 00:04 UTC
    Several explosions rock Kyiv during missile alert
  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates 28 Sept, 23:39 UTC
    انفجارات تهز كييف وسط تحذيرات من هجوم بصواريخ بالستية
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia 28 Sept, 23:27 UTC
    Several explosions rock Kyiv during missile alert
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