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Ukraine launches Vivaldi operation recapturing Donbas territory

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Outlets
3
Regions
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Countries
3
Languages
3

Merged into Ukraine claws back territory in Donbas, thwarts Russian offensive

Digi24 Romania · Romanian 7 Oct, 11:55 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Indonesia (1) · Nederlands (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 3 after 45 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Digi24, 7 Oct, 11:55 UTC.
  2. Second country: Indonesia, with Media Indonesia.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Media Indonesia.
  4. Last article: 3 outlets.

Where it travelled

46 of 46 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

33%67%

  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 33%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 67%

First movers

  1. Digi24 7 Oct, 11:55 UTC
  2. Media Indonesia +12h 4m
  3. Het Laatste Nieuws +45h 23m

The figures

Coverage
3 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 3 outlets, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: Indonesia. Europe 2: Belgium, 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
Indonesian, Dutch, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article Digi24, 7 Oct 2026, 11:55 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 12:00 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 09:18 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 of its own. It was merged into Ukraine claws back territory in Donbas, thwarts Russian offensive, and the map counts it only inside that story. 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
Merged into Ukraine claws back territory in Donbas, thwarts Russian offensive. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.

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Started 7 Oct, 12:00 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 09:18 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 3 outlets

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  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium 9 Oct, 09:18 UTC
    Poetin lijdt zware nederlaag aan front: Oekraïne verijdelt Russische poging om rest van Oekraïense regio Donetsk in te nemen
  • Media Indonesia Indonesia 8 Oct, 00:00 UTC
    Operasi Vivaldi: Ukraina Rebut kembali Donbas dan Hambat Rusia
  • Digi24 Romania 7 Oct, 11:55 UTC
    „Operațiunea Vivaldi”, contraatacul Ucrainei care a surprins Rusia. Cum a recucerit Kievul teritorii în nordul Donbasului
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