Europe / Ukraine · Conflict & Security

Ukraine launches first domestically-produced ballistic missile

Rank
Running: 39h
Updated: 18h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 3
Regions: 1
Countries: 3
Languages: 2

VRT NWS Belgium · Dutch 4 Oct, 11:14 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Dansk (1)

Read at VRT NWS

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: VRT NWS, 4 Oct, 11:14 UTC.
Second country: Denmark, with Politiken.
Now: 3 outlets.

Where it travelled

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 3 outlets · 3 countries · 100%

First movers

VRT NWS 4 Oct, 11:14 UTC
Politiken +7h 41m
RTL Nieuws +21h 17m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Ukraine reports first combat use of FP-7 ballistic missile, 1 to 3 Oct 2026, 40 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 3 outlets in 3 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 3 outlets, 1 public-service, 2 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Europe 3: Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands. 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: Danish, Dutch.
Timeline: Earliest article VRT NWS, 4 Oct 2026, 11:14 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 11:20 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 08:31 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: 0.07, 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 Ukraine reports first combat use of FP-7 ballistic missile. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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Started 4 Oct, 11:20 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 08:31 UTC

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Europe 3 outlets

RTL Nieuws Netherlands 5 Oct, 08:31 UTC
Oekraïne ontwikkelt in recordtijd eigen superraket: 'Volgende versie kan Moskou bereiken'
Politiken Denmark 4 Oct, 18:55 UTC
De kalder dem for 'pelikaner': Pressede ukrainere vil svare igen med to nye ekstremt hurtige missiler
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VRT NWS Belgium 4 Oct, 11:14 UTC
Nieuwe dreiging voor Rusland: Oekraïne lanceert voor het eerst eigen ballistische raket