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Russians flee to Finland seeking new border crossing routes

Rank
Running
20h
Updated
13h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
6
Regions
1
Countries
3
Languages
3

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Wirtualna Polska Poland · Polish 7 Oct, 05:58 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Română (2) · Lietuvių (1) · +1 language

Read at Wirtualna Polska

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 20 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Wirtualna Polska, 7 Oct, 05:58 UTC.
  2. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 7 Oct, 05:58 UTC.
  3. Second country: Lithuania, with 15min.
  4. Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

21 of 21 hours

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The 3 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 6 outlets · 3 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. Wirtualna Polska 7 Oct, 05:58 UTC
  2. Gazeta Wyborcza +15m
  3. 15min +1h 59m
  4. TVN24 +4h 3m
  5. Digi24 +4h 56m

Latest arrivals

  1. Adevărul 7 Oct, 12:28 UTC
  2. Digi24 7 Oct, 10:54 UTC
  3. TVN24 7 Oct, 10:02 UTC
  4. 15min 7 Oct, 07:58 UTC
  5. Gazeta Wyborcza 7 Oct, 06:14 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 3 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 3: Lithuania, Poland, Romania. 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
Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article Wirtualna Polska, 7 Oct 2026, 05:58 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 06:00 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 12:28 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, Finland. Topic Politics. 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
0.26, 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
7 Oct 2026 328 3.19 6 3 6 3 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 7 Oct, 06:00 UTC · Updated 12:28 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Europe 6 outlets

  • Adevărul Romania 7 Oct, 12:28 UTC
    Finlanda, în alertă la granița cu Rusia. Tot mai multe persoane care încearcă să treacă ilegal frontiera au experiență militară
  • Digi24 Romania 7 Oct, 10:54 UTC
    Foști soldați ruși se ascund pentru a intra clandestin în Finlanda. „Sunt experți în orientare și în condusul pe teren accidentat”
  • TVN24 Poland 7 Oct, 10:02 UTC
    Próbują wydostać się z Rosji. Szukają nowych szlaków
  • 15min Lithuania 7 Oct, 07:58 UTC
    Pradingę iš radarų: kaip buvę Rusijos kariai slapčia bando prasmukti į Suomiją
  • Gazeta Wyborcza Poland 7 Oct, 06:14 UTC
    Rosjanie uciekający do Finlandii szukają nowych szlak�w. Są wśr�d nich byli żołnierze
  • Wirtualna Polska Poland 7 Oct, 05:58 UTC
    Finlandia ma nowy problem na granicy. Migranci szukają przejść
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