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Ukrainian Vivaldi operation achieves major success against Russians

Rank
Ran
41h
Updated
5d ago
Closed
Outlets
7
Regions
1
Countries
5
Languages
5

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INTLPolitico Europe International · English 28 Sept, 16:20 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Polski (2) · Română (2) · Nederlands (1) · Українська (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 42 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Wirtualna Polska, 28 Sept, 10:12 UTC.
  2. Second country: Romania, with Digi24.
  3. Second region: International, with Politico Europe.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 28 Sept, 16:20 UTC.
  5. Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

42 of 42 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

86%14%

  • Europe 6 outlets · 4 countries · 86%
  • International 1 outlet · 14%

First movers

  1. Wirtualna Polska 28 Sept, 10:12 UTC
  2. Onet +1h 13m
  3. Digi24 +3h 12m
  4. INTLPolitico Europe +6h 8m
  5. Adevărul +6h 27m

Last to join

  1. Unian 30 Sept, 03:45 UTC
  2. NU.nl 29 Sept, 20:34 UTC
  3. Adevărul 28 Sept, 16:39 UTC
  4. INTLPolitico Europe 28 Sept, 16:20 UTC
  5. Digi24 28 Sept, 13:25 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 5 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 4: Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Ukraine. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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
English, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian.
Timeline
Earliest article Wirtualna Polska, 28 Sept 2026, 10:12 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 10:20 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 03:45 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 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 "Przespali prawdziwy cios". Rozbito ramię rosyjskich kleszczy w Donbasie; Prorussiske militærbloggere raser over »Operation Vivaldi«: »Det er på tide at fortælle sandheden«. 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
29 Sept 2026 278 4.53 6 4 2 2 3.3 → 4.0

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Started 28 Sept, 10:20 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 03:45 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Europe 6 outlets

  • Unian Ukraine 30 Sept, 03:45 UTC
    Пропустили основний удар: Politico розповіло про розгром військ РФ під Лиманом
  • NU.nl Netherlands 29 Sept, 20:34 UTC
    Oekraïne breekt met zelfrijdende kamikazewagens door Russische linies
  • Onet Poland 29 Sept, 18:00 UTC
    "Nie wiedzieli, że już atakujemy". Kulisy spektakularnej operacji "Vivaldi" ukraińskiej armii
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    • Zaskoczenie na froncie. "Punkt zwrotny" operacji "Vivaldi". Zdumiewająca taktyka przynosi sukcesy Ukrainie 28 Sept, 12:29 UTC
    • Sukces ukraińskiej ofensywy. Plan Putina legł w gruzach. "Udało się oszukać wroga" 28 Sept, 11:25 UTC
  • Adevărul Romania 28 Sept, 16:39 UTC
    Lovitură neașteptată pentru ruși în Donețk: peste 250 de militari s-ar fi predat ucrainenilor în timpul Operațiunii „Vivaldi”
  • Digi24 Romania 28 Sept, 13:25 UTC
    „Rușii s-au predat în întregime”. Rezultatele operațiunii „Vivaldi”, cea mai mare contraofensivă ucraineană din 2022
  • Wirtualna Polska Poland 28 Sept, 10:12 UTC
    Sukces operacji Vivaldi. Rosjanie mają poważny problem

International 1 outlet

  • INTLPolitico Europe International 28 Sept, 16:20 UTC
    Ukraine regains territory and captures POWs in frontline push
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