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🗞️ Story file #825

Ukrainian President open to ceasefire with frozen front lines

Oct 22, 1 PM ET to Oct 22, 11 PM ET

📰 read it at: Mediaite Reuters The Hill Just the News Washington Examiner Breitbart Fox News New York Post Newsmax Red State

👣 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 22, 1 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
  2. Oct 22, 1 PM ETpeak: on 10 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 22, 2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM510leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 22, 1 PM to Oct 22, 11 PM ET (peak 10), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 21, 6 PMOct 226 AM12 PM6 PMMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 21, 9:00 AM ET: ‘Freeze and Stop!’ Zelensky Tells Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade He Would ‘Accept’ End of War Along Current FrontlinesJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Oct 21, 10:00 AM ET: Ukrainian President Zelensky says he's open to ending war with Russia with front lines frozenNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 21, 10:00 AM ET: Zelensky says he’d accept Russian peace deal that ‘freezes’ front lines: ‘Real way to end war’NewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 21, 10:00 AM ET: Zelenskyy Backs Ceasefire, Trilateral Talks With US, RussiaReutersReutersReuters, Oct 21, 10:00 AM ET: Ukraine's Zelenskiy says he supports ceasefire, trilateral talks with US and RussiaRed StateRed StateRed State, Oct 21, 11:00 AM ET: This May Be It: Putin Agrees to Peace Talks, Zelensky Open to Deal That Freezes LinesFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 21, 11:00 AM ET: Ukraine's Zelenskyy open to freezing front lines in ceasefire with RussiaFox News, Oct 21, 12:00 PM ET: Zelenskyy tells 'FOX & Friends' what he's willing to accept for ceasefire with RussiaWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 21, 1:00 PM ET: Zelensky says he would accept peace deal freezing war along current linesThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 21, 1:00 PM ET: Zelensky says he’d be open to freezing front lines to end Russia warBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 21, 8:00 PM ET: Zelensky Says He Would Accept Deal to Freeze Ukraine War at Current Lines📺 TVCNN, 1:07 PM ET: ZELENSKY WARNS U.S. AGAINST COZYING UP TO PUTINCNN, 3:11 PM ET: ZELENSKY ADDRESSES DISPUTE WITH TRUMPCNN, 3:16 PM ET: ZELENSKY ON RIFT WITH TRUMP: "IT'S NOT SOMETHING PERSONAL"CNN, 3:16 PM ET: ZELENSKY ON RIFT WITH TRUMP: "IT'S NOT SOMETHING PERSONAL"CNN, 3:17 PM ET: ZELENSKY ON RIFT WITH TRUMP: "IT'S NOT SOMETHING PERSONAL"CNN, 3:18 PM ET: ZELENSKY ON RIFT WITH TRUMP: "IT'S NOT SOMETHING PERSONAL"CNN, 3:18 PM ET: ZELENSKY ON RIFT WITH TRUMP: "IT'S NOT SOMETHING PERSONAL"CNN, 3:19 PM ET: ZELENSKY: LIFTING SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA MAKES PUTIN STRONGERCNN, 3:19 PM ET: ZELENSKY ON RIFT WITH TRUMP: "IT'S NOT SOMETHING PERSONAL"CNN, 6:18 PM ET: ZELENSKY TO CNN: NOTHING PERSONAL BETWEEN ME AND TRUMP. Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky | UkraineCNN, 6:18 PM ET: ZELENSKY TO CNN: NOTHING PERSONAL BETWEEN ME AND TRUMPCNN, 6:19 PM ET: ZELENSKY TO CNN: NOTHING PERSONAL BETWEEN ME AND TRUMPCNN, 6:19 PM ET: ZELENSKY TO CNN: NOTHING PERSONAL BETWEEN ME AND TRUMP. Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky | UkraineCNN, 6:19 PM ET: ZELENSKY TO CNN: NOTHING PERSONAL BETWEEN ME AND TRUMP. Brett McGurk | Former Middle East & North Africa Coordinator, Natl. Security CouncilCNN, 6:20 PM ET: ZELENSKY TO CNN: NOTHING PERSONAL BETWEEN ME AND TRUMPCNN, 6:20 PM ET: ZELENSKY TO CNN: NOTHING PERSONAL BETWEEN ME AND TRUMP. Brett McGurk | @W Global Affairs Analyst
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, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. 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

  1. “freezes”1
  2. “Real way to end war”1
  3. “FOX & Friends”1
  4. “Accept”1
  5. “Freeze and Stop!”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Fox News (2 wordings): “Ukraine's Zelenskyy open to freezing front lines in ceasefire with Russia” → “Zelenskyy tells 'FOX & Friends' what he's willing to accept for ceasefire with Russia”
📰 Every outlet's headline 10left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. 🫏 CNN 9 min

📻 On the radio

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

🧶 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

UkraineRussiaVolodymyr ZelenskyyFOX NewsBrian KilmeadeUkrainian President

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks

  1. Zelenskyy warns U.S. backing Russia would be a historic mistake

    Oct 19, 7 AM ET

  2. Russia attacks Ukraine's energy infrastructure again

    Oct 15, 5 AM ET

  3. Trump pauses U.S. sanctions on Russia

    Oct 20, 6 AM ET

  4. Ukraine launches over 1,000 drones at Russian oil facilities

    Oct 18, 9 AM ET

  5. Trump waives Russia sanctions to keep peace talks alive

    Oct 16, 11 PM ET

  6. Trump criticizes Zelenskyy over Ukraine negotiations

    Oct 19, 5 AM ET

  7. Zelenskyy meets U.S. envoy amid Trump tensions

    Oct 20, 5 PM ET

  8. Putin proposes trilateral summit with Trump and Xi on Ukraine war

    Oct 19, 2 AM ET

  9. Ukrainian President open to ceasefire with frozen front lines (this story)

    Oct 22, 1 PM ET

  10. US envoy Witkoff meets with Putin in St. Petersburg

    Oct 22, 8 PM ET

  11. Russia agrees to resume trilateral peace talks with Ukraine and the U.S

    Oct 20, 7 PM ET

  12. Russia releases detained American teacher after Trump intervention

    Oct 21, 6 AM ET

  13. Russia releases American Stephen Hubbard after over 4 years in prison

    Oct 23, 11 AM ET

  14. Russia and Ukraine exchange strikes amid renewed peace talks

    Oct 22, 7 AM ET

  15. Ukraine, Russia, and U.S. prepare for November peace talks

    Oct 28, 3 PM ET

  16. U.S. to mediate Ukraine-Russia talks in Abu Dhabi next week

    Nov 3, 1 PM ET

  17. Trump meets with Putin envoy on Ukraine peace deal

    Nov 6, 8 PM ET

  18. Missile attacks wound nine as Ukraine prepares for talks with Russia and the U.S

    Nov 7, 11 AM ET

  19. Russia and Ukraine exchange strikes ahead of peace talks

    Nov 9, 1 PM ET

  20. U.S.-mediated talks on ending Russia-Ukraine war begin in abu Dhabi

    Nov 9, 6 AM ET