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🗞️ Story file #462

Russian strikes leave 600,000 Ukrainians without power

Oct 14, 10 AM ET to Oct 15, 5 AM ET

👣 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.

  1. Oct 14, 10 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Epoch Times
  2. Oct 14, 10 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
  3. Oct 14, 10 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 14, 12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 153 AM36leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 14, 10 AM to Oct 15, 5 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 14, 6 AM12 PM6 PMOct 15Yahoo NewsYahoo NewsYahoo News, Oct 14, 5:02 AM ET: Russia hits 'critical' energy sites in Ukraine, leaving 600,000 people without powerThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 14, 5:02 AM ET: Russian attacks on Ukraine leave 600,000 without power as Zelenskyy says Moscow ‘disrespecting’ USBBCBBCBBC, Oct 14, 6:02 AM ET: Russian strikes leave 600,000 without power in Ukraine, as Starlink restrictions affect front lineABC NewsABC NewsABC News, Oct 14, 7:02 AM ET: 600,000 without power in Ukraine as Russia launches 'massive' attackABC News, Oct 14, 3:02 PM ET: 600,000 lose power in Ukraine as Russian attacksNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 14, 8:02 AM ET: Russian strikes kill 3, knock out power for 600,000 Ukrainians in latest snub to Trump’s energy cease-fireNew York Post, Oct 14, 9:02 AM ET: No end in sight Russian strikes kill 3, knock out power for 600,000 Ukrainians in latest snub to Trump’s energy cease-fireThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Oct 14, 10:02 AM ET: 600,000 Ukrainians Without Power After Missile, Drone Attacks, Zelenskyy Says📺 TVFox News, 10:19 AM ET: BARRAGE LEAVES TOWN WITHOUT POWER IN UKRAINE
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.

💬 quoted: “critical” “disrespecting” “massive”

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • ABC News (2 wordings): “600,000 without power in Ukraine as Russia launches 'massive' attack” → “600,000 lose power in Ukraine as Russian attacks”
  • New York Post (2 wordings): “Russian strikes kill 3, knock out power for 600,000 Ukrainians in latest snub to Trump’s energy cease-fire” → “No end in sight Russian strikes kill 3, knock out power for 600,000 Ukrainians in latest snub to Trump’s energy cease-fire”
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News12 s
  • BARRAGE LEAVES TOWN WITHOUT POWER IN UKRAINE Fox News, 12 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 🎙️ BBC Global News Podcast 🎙️ Bloomberg News Now

🧶 Retelling

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 Russia Starlink Zelenskyy Donald Trump Moscow

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Ukraine power outage crisis

  1. Russia strikes kyiv's northern bridge, drones cross into Moldova

    Oct 3, 8 AM ET

  2. Russian strikes kill at least 24 in Ukraine

    Oct 7, 7 PM ET

  3. Russian strikes leave 600,000 Ukrainians without power (this story)

    Oct 14, 10 AM ET

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

    Oct 13, 3 PM ET