Ukraine launches over 1,000 drones at Russian oil facilities

🗞️ Story file #606

Ukraine launches over 1,000 drones at Russian oil facilities

Oct 18, 9 AM ET to Oct 20, 5 PM ET

17outlets carried it
🫏6 · 4 · 7🐘left · center · right
2.3 dayson the front pages
21front pages at once, at its peak
37 minof TV captions
10radio newscasts
4 of 10parts 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 18, 9 AM ETfirst on a front page: CNN
Oct 18, 9 AM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 18, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 19, 12 PM ETpeak: on 21 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 18, 9 AM to Oct 20, 5 PM ET (peak 15), 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, New York Post)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Political Wire Drudge Report

💬 quoted: “historic mistake” “Disgrace” “Course of current events”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 launches 1k drones 🐘 oil sites 🐘 russian oil

✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (4 wordings): “St Petersburg oil facilities ablaze as Ukraine launches more than 1,000 drones at Russia” → “Ukraine launches more than 1,000 drones at Russia as spat between Trump and Zelenskyy continues - AP News”
Breitbart (2 wordings): “St. Petersburg Oil Terminal Set Ablaze Amid Massive Wave of Ukraine Drone Strikes” → “St. Petersburg Oil Terminal Set Ablaze in Massive Wave of Ukraine Drone Strikes”
CNN (4 wordings): “Ukraine defies Trump and launches one of its biggest drone attacks on Russia this year” → “Trump slams Zelensky after Ukraine defies US president with major attack on Russia”
New York Post (4 wordings): “'Course of current events' Blaze at St. Petersburg oil sites as Ukraine launches more than 1,000 drones at Russia” → “Ukraine targets Putin’s hometown as it launches 1K drones at Russia’s oil industry in biggest attack all year”
Newsmax (3 wordings): “Ukraine Launches Some 1,000 Drones at Russian Oil Sites” → “Ukraine Launches 1K Drones at Russian Oil Sites”
Reuters (2 wordings): “One killed, 15 injured in Ukrainian drone attack on St Petersburg and Leningrad region” → “Skies over St. Petersburg ignite after Ukraine strikes oil sites”

Every outlet's first headline (17), left to right by AllSides rating