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Europe / Ukraine · Conflict & Security

US approves $2.7 billion air defense equipment sale to Ukraine

Rank
Ran
47h
Updated
14d ago
Final
Outlets
26
Regions
5
Countries
18
Languages
8

+7

Where it travelled

The 18 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

23%23%35%

  • Africa 2 outlets · 1 country · 8%
  • Americas 6 outlets · 5 countries · 23%
  • Asia-Pacific 6 outlets · 4 countries · 23%
  • Europe 9 outlets · 6 countries · 35%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 2 countries · 11%

The figures

Coverage
26 outlets in 18 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 26 outlets, 1 state-owned, 25 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Nigeria. Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, United States. Asia-Pacific 4: Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Pakistan. Europe 6: Latvia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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
Arabic, English, Spanish, Latvian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article Times of India, 19 Sept 2026, 01:56 UTC. First seen 19 Sept 2026, 02:00 UTC. Last seen 21 Sept 2026, 01:45 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 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
3.94, 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.
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
19 Sept 2026 33 21.99 22 16 – – 1.4
20 Sept 2026 110 9.76 25 18 1 1 1.4 → 2.0
21 Sept 2026 318 3.94 26 18 1 1 2.4

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 19 Sept, 02:00 UTC · Updated 21 Sept, 01:45 UTC

Covered by 26 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

  • Channels TV Nigeria
  • Vanguard Nigeria

Americas 6 outlets

  • CBS News United States
  • Clarín Argentina
  • CTV News Canada
  • El Universal Mexico
  • G1 Brazil
  • Infobae Argentina

Asia-Pacific 6 outlets

  • Daily Times Pakistan
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • NDTV India
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong
  • The Hindu India
  • Times of India India

Europe 9 outlets

  • Adevărul Romania
  • Delfi (LV) Latvia
  • Digi24 Romania
  • Kommersant Russia
  • Kyiv Independent Ukraine
  • Meduza Russia
  • N1 Serbia
  • Reuters United Kingdom
  • Ukrainska Pravda Ukraine

Middle East 3 outlets

  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates
  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates

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