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Zelenskyy says Ukraine received no intelligence from partners about missiles headed to Kyiv

Oct 13, 3 PM ET to Oct 15, 6 AM ET

13outlets carried it
🫏7 · 2 · 4🐘left · center · right
1.6 dayson the front pages
14front pages at once, at its peak
66 minof TV captions
5radio newscasts
4 of 4parts of a saga

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 13, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: Military.com
Oct 13, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 13, 7 PM ETpeak: on 14 front pages
Oct 13, 11 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 13, 3 PM to Oct 15, 6 AM ET (peak 13), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 2 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (Military.com, PBS NewsHour)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Drudge Report

💬 quoted: “early warning from our partners” “We will stop”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 incoming missile

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Newsmax (2 wordings): “Zelenskyy Says Ukraine Received No Intelligence from Partners on Incoming Missile Strike on Kyiv” → “Zelenskyy: Ukraine Got No Intel From Partners on Missiles Headed to Kyiv”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Allies gave Ukraine no warning of impending missile attack, Zelenskiy says” → “Russian missile attack on Kyiv kills two, Zelenskiy says no warning received”

Every outlet's first headline (13), left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian Allies did not warn Kyiv of Russian ballistic missile strikes, says Zelenskyy Oct 13, 10 AM ET
AP Zelenskyy says Ukraine received no intelligence from partners about missiles headed to Kyiv Oct 13, 1 PM ET
Military.com Zelenskyy Says Ukraine Received No Intelligence From Partners About Missiles Headed to Kyiv Oct 13, 3 PM ET
NBC News Zelenskyy says Ukraine received no intel from partners on incoming missile strike on Kyiv Oct 13, 8 AM ET
PBS NewsHour Ukraine had no intelligence from partners about missiles headed to Kyiv, Zelenskyy says Oct 13, 2 PM ET
The Independent Zelensky says Ukraine received no intelligence on incoming missile strike on Kyiv Oct 13, 2 PM ET
Yahoo News Zelensky says Ukraine received no early warning from partners about missiles headed to Kyiv Oct 13, 2 PM ET
Financial Times Zelenskyy says Kyiv’s partners failed to warn of ballistic missile attack Oct 13, 9 AM ET
Reuters Allies gave Ukraine no warning of impending missile attack, Zelenskiy says Oct 13, 3 PM ET
Just the News Zelensky confirms Ukraine received no warning on Russian strikes amid row with Trump Oct 13, 3 PM ET
Washington Examiner Zelensky laments lack of ‘early warning from our partners’ on Russian strikes against Ukraine Oct 13, 11 AM ET
New York Post Ukraine got no warning about Russian attack, Zelensky says after Trump reportedly threatened to cut off intel, weapons Oct 13, 10 AM ET
Newsmax Zelenskyy Says Ukraine Received No Intelligence from Partners on Incoming Missile Strike on Kyiv Oct 13, 9 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News65 min

CNN21 s

No warning before Kyiv hit by Russian missiles BBC News, 38 min
Kyiv: 'No warning' before Russian missiles hit city BBC News, 9 min
Zelensky: Ukraine got no warning about missiles BBC News, 5 min
Ukraine claims no warning from allies ahead of Russian strikes BBC News, 5 min
Reuters: Explosions hit Kyiv with no advance warning BBC News, 4 min
UK PM to host President Zelensky at Number 10 BBC News, 2 min
BBC on scene as Kyiv comes under attack BBC News, 2 min
a Ukrainian President BBC News, 30 s

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 14, 3:09 PM ET: story 4 of 4
NPR News Now, Oct 14, 8:10 AM ET: the lead
NPR News Now, Oct 14, 6:10 AM ET: story 2 of 2
NPR News Now, Oct 14, 4:09 AM ET: story 2 of 5
NPR News Now, Oct 13, 11:10 PM ET: story 2 of 4

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 Matt Walsh 📺 The Young Turks 🎙️ Bloomberg News Now

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy Russia Donald Trump

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

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Oct 14, 10 AM ET
Zelenskyy says Ukraine received no intelligence from partners about missiles headed to Kyiv (this story)
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