BND - Ukraine launches over 1,000 drones at Russia, striking oil facilities in St. Petersburg

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Ukraine launches over 1,000 drones at Russia, striking oil facilities in St. Petersburg

Oct 18, 9 AM ET to Oct 18, 6 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

17outlets carried it
🫏6 · 4 · 6🐘left · center · right
9 hourson the front pages
17front pages at once, at its peak
17 minof TV captions
2radio newscasts

👣 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, 10 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 18, 6 PM ETpeak: on 17 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 18, 6 PM ET (peak 17), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

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

💬 quoted: “Course of current events”

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

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (3 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”
New York Post (3 wordings): “'Course of current events' Blaze at St. Petersburg oil sites as Ukraine launches more than 1,000 drones at Russia” → “Close to home 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

ABC News Ukraine targets Russia with more than 1,000 drones, striking oil terminal Oct 18, 8 AM ET
AP St Petersburg oil facilities ablaze as Ukraine launches more than 1,000 drones at Russia Oct 18, 12 PM ET
CBS News Ukraine launches 1,000 drones at Russia, strikes set oil facilities ablaze Oct 18, 3 PM ET
CNBC Ukraine hits Russia with 1,000 drones; Trump-Zelenskyy spat continues Oct 18, 6 PM ET
CNN Ukraine defies Trump and launches one of its biggest drone attacks on Russia this year Oct 18, 9 AM ET
Military.com St. Petersburg Oil Facilities Ablaze as Ukraine Launches More Than 1,000 Drones at Russia Oct 18, 1 PM ET
Financial Times St Petersburg endures biggest Ukrainian drone attack Oct 18, 8 AM ET
Reuters One killed, 15 injured in Ukrainian drone attack on St Petersburg and Leningrad region Oct 18, 8 AM ET
Scripps News Europe Ukraine defies Trump and launches one of its biggest attacks on Russia this year Tim Lister and Daria Tarasova-Markina Oct 18, 1 PM ET
Straight Arrow News Ukraine launches 1,015 drones at Russia; Oil terminal, depot struck Oct 18, 2 PM ET
Just the News Ukraine launches massive drone attack on Russia, setting St. Petersburg oil facilities ablaze Oct 18, 9 AM ET
Washington Examiner Blaze at St. Petersburg oil sites as Kyiv launches more than 1,000 drones at Russia Oct 18, 1 PM ET
Breitbart St. Petersburg Oil Terminal Set Ablaze Amid Massive Wave of Ukraine Drone Strikes Oct 18, 10 AM ET
New York Post 'Course of current events' Blaze at St. Petersburg oil sites as Ukraine launches more than 1,000 drones at Russia Oct 18, 8 AM ET
Newsmax Ukraine Launches Some 1,000 Drones at Russian Oil Sites Oct 18, 7 AM ET
The Daily Caller Ukraine Launches Over 1,000 Drones At Russia, Hitting Oil Depots, Amid Trump’s Demand For Energy Ceasefire Oct 18, 1 PM ET
RFE/RL Russia Pounds Ukraine With Missiles And Hundreds Of Drones Oct 17, 4 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News8 min

CNN8 min

Fox News33 s

RUSSIA POUNDS UKRAINE AS U.S. SUPPORT WITHERS CNN, 5 min
At least one dead in St Petersburg drone attack BBC News, 5 min
At least one killed in Russia's attack on Ukraine BBC News, 3 min
RUSSIA POUNDS UKRAINE AS U.S. SUPPORT WITHERS. Chrystia Freeland | Author, "Unreliable Boyfriend" CNN, 67 s
ZELENSKY WARNS OF U.S. SHIFT CNN, 39 s
UKRAINE LAUNCHES NEW STRIKES CNN, 37 s
War in Ukraine BBC News, 32 s
Zelensky says he has spoken to US envoys BBC News, 32 s

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 18, 2:09 PM ET: story 2 of 3
ABC News Update, Oct 18, 9:32 AM ET: story 2 of 2

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 🎙️ Up First (NPR) 🎙️ 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 Russia St. Petersburg Donald Trump Ukrainian military

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

Ukraine launches over 1,000 drones at Russia, striking oil facilities in St. Petersburg

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