Russia: Soldier killed in car explosion in Saint Petersburg
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Slowing
3 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 4 newsrooms by 8:29am AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 75% of the past week’s 4154 stories, and number 344 of 1882 in News.
1Russian military officials and other figures involved in Moscow's full-scale invasion have previously been targeted in car bombings and other attacks, sometimes in Ukrainian-led operations.
Euronews didn’t include a summary, so this is The Kyiv Independent’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and then Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia, after Moscow, the nation's capital. Situated on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, its area of 1,439 square kilometers (556 sq mi) makes it the smallest administrative division of Russia by area. 4 million people living in the metropolitan area.4
The story so far
4 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 5
- Newsrooms and sources
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 1
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (1 in the last three hours, 3 in the three before).
First with it: Daily Mail, 1 hr 24 min before anyone else.
Reported by 4 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Reports
- 5
- Over
- 5.6 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 2.5 hr
Newsrooms on it each counted once
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 8:24pm AEDT | Daily Mail | 1 |
| 9:48pm AEDT | Euronews | 2 |
| 10:54pm AEDT | The Kyiv Independent | 3 |
| 11:25pm AEDT | The Independent | 4 |


