🗞️ Story file #462
Russian strikes leave 600,000 Ukrainians without power
Oct 14, 10 AM ET to Oct 15, 5 AM ET
- 6outlets carried it
- 🫏3 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 19 hourson the front pages
- 6front pages at once, at its peak
- 12 sof TV captions
- 3 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 14, 10 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Epoch Times
- Oct 14, 10 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
- Oct 14, 10 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 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
The Guardian
Russian attacks on Ukraine leave 600,000 without power as Zelenskyy says Moscow ‘disrespecting’ US Oct 14, 5 AM ET
ABC News
600,000 without power in Ukraine as Russia launches 'massive' attack Oct 14, 7 AM ET
Yahoo News
Russia hits 'critical' energy sites in Ukraine, leaving 600,000 people without power Oct 14, 5 AM ET
BBC
Russian strikes leave 600,000 without power in Ukraine, as Starlink restrictions affect front line Oct 14, 6 AM ET
The Epoch Times
600,000 Ukrainians Without Power After Missile, Drone Attacks, Zelenskyy Says Oct 14, 10 AM ET
New York Post
Russian strikes kill 3, knock out power for 600,000 Ukrainians in latest snub to Trump’s energy cease-fire Oct 14, 8 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- BARRAGE LEAVES TOWN WITHOUT POWER IN UKRAINE Fox News, 12 s
🧶 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
Russia strikes kyiv's northern bridge, drones cross into Moldova
Oct 3, 8 AM ET
Russian strikes kill at least 24 in Ukraine
Oct 7, 7 PM ET
Russian strikes leave 600,000 Ukrainians without power (this story)
Oct 14, 10 AM ET
Zelenskyy says Ukraine received no intelligence from partners about missiles headed to Kyiv
Oct 13, 3 PM ET