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🗞️ Story file #635

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

Oct 19, 7 AM ET to Oct 19, 12 PM ET

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  1. Oct 19, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: NBC News
  2. Oct 19, 7 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
  3. Oct 19, 7 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 19, 7 AM to Oct 19, 12 PM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center
Oct 18, 6 PMOct 196 AM12 PMYahoo NewsYahoo NewsYahoo News, Oct 18, 12:00 PM ET: U.S. taking Putin's side would be a 'historic mistake,' says ZelenskySalonSalonSalon, Oct 18, 5:00 PM ET: Zelenskyy warns: “We will not prevail” if U.S. backs RussiaHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 18, 8:00 PM ET: Trump Is On The Verge Of Making A ‘Historic Mistake,’ Zelenskyy WarnsNew York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Oct 18, 9:00 PM ET: Zelensky Says Trump Risks ‘Historic Mistake’ If He Backs RussiaThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 19, 7:00 AM ET: Zelensky warns US support of Putin is a ‘historic mistake’NBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 19, 7:00 AM ET: U.S. taking Putin’s side would be a ‘historic mistake,’ Zelenskyy says📺 TVFox News, 7:40 AM ET: ZELENSKYY: THIS DIESEL DEAL IS VERY DANGEROUSCNN, 7:47 AM ET: ZELENSKY: U.S. SIDING WITH RUSSIA WOULD BE "HISTORIC MISTAKE"CNN, 7:47 AM ET: ZELENSKY: U.S. SIDING WITH RUSSIA WOULD BE A "HISTORIC MISTAKE". Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky | UkraineBBC News, 10:07 AM ET: Zelensky: No attack warning from alliesBBC News, 10:09 AM ET: Zelensky: No attack warning from alliesBBC News, 10:12 AM ET: Zelensky: No attack warning from alliesBBC News, 10:14 AM ET: Zelensky: No attack warning from allies
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💬 quoted: “historic mistake,” 5 “We will not prevail”

Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News3 min
CNN54 s
Fox News13 s
  • Zelensky: No attack warning from allies BBC News, 3 min
  • ZELENSKY: U.S. SIDING WITH RUSSIA WOULD BE "HISTORIC MISTAKE" CNN, 27 s
  • ZELENSKY: U.S. SIDING WITH RUSSIA WOULD BE A "HISTORIC MISTAKE". Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky | Ukraine CNN, 27 s
  • ZELENSKYY: THIS DIESEL DEAL IS VERY DANGEROUS Fox News, 13 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: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Russia Donald Trump Putin

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Zelenskyy Warns Trump on Ukraine

  1. Zelenskyy warns U.S. backing Russia would be a historic mistake (this story)

    Oct 19, 7 AM ET

  2. Ukraine launches major drone attack on Russia; Trump criticizes Zelensky's negotiation role

    Oct 19, 5 AM ET

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