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Russia escalates drone attacks on Ukraine with jet-powered weapons

Rank
Ran
5d
Updated
15d ago
Final
Outlets
16
Regions
5
Countries
13
Languages
7

+2

Where it travelled

The 13 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

13%19%56%

  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 13%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 2 countries · 19%
  • Europe 9 outlets · 7 countries · 56%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 6%
  • International 1 outlet · 6%

The figures

Coverage
16 outlets in 13 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 16 outlets, 1 state-owned, 2 public-service, 13 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Brazil, United States. Asia-Pacific 2: India, Japan. Europe 8: Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Qatar. 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
German, English, Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article Politico Europe, 14 Sept 2026, 13:12 UTC. First seen 15 Sept 2026, 03:00 UTC. Last seen 20 Sept 2026, 08:00 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 Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). 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
4.65, at the end of the last day measured. 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 Russia plans to increase annual kamikaze drone production by 28,000. 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
15 Sept 2026 159 4.96 4 4 – – 1.0
16 Sept 2026 244 4.23 9 7 – – 1.2
17 Sept 2026 233 5.26 10 8 – – 1.2
18 Sept 2026 138 9.51 13 11 – – 1.3
19 Sept 2026 272 3.52 14 11 – – 1.4
20 Sept 2026 216 4.65 16 13 2 2 1.4 → 2.0

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How this was measured

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Started 15 Sept, 03:00 UTC · Updated 20 Sept, 08:00 UTC

Covered by 16 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

  • G1 Brazil
  • The Wall Street Journal United States

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • NDTV India
  • NHK World Japan
  • The Japan Times Japan

Europe 9 outlets

  • Digi24 Romania
  • El Mundo Spain
  • Kyiv Independent Ukraine
  • Le Monde France
  • Reuters United Kingdom
  • Tagesschau Germany
  • The Independent United Kingdom
  • TVN24 Poland
  • Ukrainska Pravda Ukraine

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Al Jazeera Qatar

International 1 outlet

  • INTLPolitico Europe International

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