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Russian drone crashes in Moldova airspace for third time in day

Rank
Ran
28h
Updated
4d ago
Final
Outlets
9
Regions
1
Countries
7
Languages
8

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Ukrinform Ukraine · English 30 Sept, 06:37 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Čeština (1) · Eesti (1) · Latviešu (1) · Lietuvių (1) · Polski (1) · Русский (1) · Українська (1) · +6 languages

Read at Ukrinform

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 28 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Ukrinform, 30 Sept, 06:37 UTC.
  2. Second country: Lithuania, with 15min.
  3. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 30 Sept, 07:29 UTC.
  4. Last article: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

29 of 29 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

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  • Europe 9 outlets · 7 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. Ukrinform 30 Sept, 06:37 UTC
  2. 15min +52m
  3. Onet +1h 7m
  4. TVNET +1h 52m
  5. Ukrainska Pravda +12h 19m

Last to join

  1. Kommersant 1 Oct, 11:06 UTC
  2. Seznam Zprávy 1 Oct, 11:03 UTC
  3. Postimees 1 Oct, 01:07 UTC
  4. NV 30 Sept, 19:57 UTC
  5. Ukrainska Pravda 30 Sept, 18:56 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 7 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 1 state-owned, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 7: Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, 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
Czech, English, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian.
Timeline
Earliest article Ukrinform, 30 Sept 2026, 06:37 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 06:40 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 11:06 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, Moldova. 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 Russian missiles and drones hit Moldova airspace during Ukraine attack. 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
30 Sept 2026 310 4.05 5 4 5 4 4.0
1 Oct 2026 378 3.32 9 7 3 3 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 06:40 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 11:06 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Europe 9 outlets

  • Kommersant Russia 1 Oct, 11:06 UTC
    МИД Молдавии вызвал посла России после трех инцидентов с дронами
  • Seznam Zprávy Czechia 1 Oct, 11:03 UTC
    Třikrát za jeden den. Drony narušily vzdušný prostor Moldavska
  • Postimees Estonia 1 Oct, 01:07 UTC
    Moldova õhuruumi tungisid droonid kolmel korral päeva jooksul
  • NV Ukraine 30 Sept, 19:57 UTC
    В Молдове дрон в третий раз за день нарушил воздушное пространство — Минобороны страны
  • Ukrainska Pravda Ukraine 30 Sept, 18:56 UTC
    Drone breaches Moldovan airspace for third time in one day
  • TVNET Latvia 30 Sept, 08:28 UTC
    Moldovā eksplodējis Krievijas drons
  • Onet Poland 30 Sept, 07:43 UTC
    Rosyjski dron eksplodował w Mołdawii. "Zostaną pociągnięci do odpowiedzialności"
  • 15min Lithuania 30 Sept, 07:29 UTC
    Rusijai atakuojant Ukrainą Moldovos teritorijoje nukrito ir sprogo dronas
  • Ukrinform Ukraine 30 Sept, 06:37 UTC
    Russian drone flies into and explodes in Moldova
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