🧵 Saga file #21
Russia-Ukraine missile strikes
Oct 3, 8 AM ET to Oct 15, 6 AM ET
- 4parts so far
- 26outlets carried a part
- 🫏12 · 5 · 8🐘left · center · right
- 11.9 daysrunning so far
- 102 minof TV captions
- 7radio newscasts
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 3, 8 AM ET · on the front pages 2.8 daysRussia strikes kyiv's northern bridge, drones cross into Moldova
- Oct 7, 7 PM ET · on the front pages 19 hoursRussian strikes kill at least 24 in Ukraine
- Oct 14, 10 AM ET · on the front pages 19 hoursRussian strikes leave 600,000 Ukrainians without power
- Oct 13, 3 PM ET · on the front pages 1.6 daysZelenskyy says Ukraine received no intelligence from partners about missiles headed to Kyiv
📰 Spread
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🧩 The parts
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1. Russia strikes kyiv's northern bridge, drones cross into Moldova
Oct 3, 8 AM ET · 19 outlets · on the front pages 2.8 days
“Russian aerial strikes snarl traffic on 3 Kyiv bridges in a new disruption tactic” first: NBC News
📺 BBC News 26 min, Fox News 29 s, CNN 10 s · 📻 2 newscasts
2. Russian strikes kill at least 24 in Ukraine
Oct 7, 7 PM ET · 8 outlets · on the front pages 19 hours
“Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities have killed at least 19 civilians, including four children, and wounded 60.” first: New York Post
📺 BBC News 10 min
3. Russian strikes leave 600,000 Ukrainians without power
Oct 14, 10 AM ET · 6 outlets · on the front pages 19 hours
“Russian attacks on Ukraine leave 600,000 without power as Zelenskyy says Moscow ‘disrespecting’ US” first: The Guardian, Yahoo News
📺 Fox News 12 s
4. Zelenskyy says Ukraine received no intelligence from partners about missiles headed to Kyiv
Oct 13, 3 PM ET · 13 outlets · on the front pages 1.6 days
“Zelenskyy says Ukraine received no intel from partners on incoming missile strike on Kyiv” first: NBC News
📺 BBC News 65 min, CNN 21 s · 📻 5 newscasts
🧩 How it's been told
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🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling any part of it online yet, as far as the daily report can tell.