News
Russian colonel killed in car explosion outside St Petersburg: report
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Slowing
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 4 to 5 newsrooms by 8:04am AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 76% of the past week’s 4118 stories, and number 342 of 1860 in News.
1Kyiv rarely claims responsibility for such attacks on Russian troops, but Ukrainian forces have previously used similar blasts to show that Russia’s security services are vulnerable.
The Independent didn’t include a summary, so this is Euronews’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 newsrooms- Reports
- 4
- Newsrooms and sources
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 1
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
- Over
- 3 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 |
Bigger than 97% of News stories this week. Reached three newsrooms in 2.5 hr; a typical News story that gets there takes 7.4 hr.
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