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Tusk says a petrol station was "probably" hit; Poland's defence ministry says no drones were seen

Poland shut part of its airspace and two eastern airports and put fighter jets up on Thursday morning, then stood the measures down. The two reports we hold disagree about what exploded near the border, and only one of them says anything about whether drones crossed.

Deel Poolse luchtruim urenlang dicht vanwege Russische aanvallen op Oekraïne
Deel Poolse luchtruim urenlang dicht vanwege Russische aanvallen op Oekraïne as published by NOS · seen at NOS
Europe Poland Ukraine Russia

Both reports carry the same Polish response. Part of Polish airspace was closed for hours, two airports in the east of the country were shut as a precaution, the air-raid alarm sounded and Poland sent fighter jets up, NOS reports. Gazeta Wyborcza quotes Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a press conference: "our aircraft were scrambled". NOS says the measures have since been lifted.

They part on what happened, and where.

Gazeta Wyborcza NOS
What was hit "probably a petrol station" near Jagodzin in Ukraine, Tusk says, and "a very massive explosion" explosions "not far from the border" late in the morning, nothing named
Damage at the border not addressed "no damage to the border infrastructure, it appears"
Drones over Poland not addressed none seen, the Polish defence ministry says
Ukraine's figures none more than a hundred missiles and drones fired, Ukraine says; nineteen wounded including two children; damage at 33 places in and around Kyiv, President Zelensky says

Not settled. Neither report names who caused the blast near the border: one has explosions that simply sounded, the other prints a prime minister hedging the target inside his own quote. Only one of the two carries the no-drones statement, and it is the ministry's word, not an independent finding. Neither says who ordered the closures, or who established that the explosion was on the Ukrainian side. We hold no Russian account of the morning, and nobody hurt is named — only counted.

This is a story about a NATO member closing part of its own airspace for a few hours while missiles and drones were falling on the country next door.

How it got here. Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, and the war has since run as two parallel campaigns: fighting along a front in Ukraine's east and south, and long-range strikes far behind it, on cities and on energy and military sites. Ukraine has answered with strikes inside Russia. Poland borders Ukraine and sits on the main land route between western Europe and it. When Russian strikes fall on western Ukraine, the blasts are close enough to Polish soil that Poland raises its air defences — which is what both reports describe happening on Thursday morning. Jagodzin, which Gazeta Wyborcza names, is Yahodyn in Ukrainian: a village on the Ukrainian side of one of the main road crossings into Poland.

Who is in it. Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004; Donald Tusk is its prime minister, and he spoke about the explosion at a press conference alongside the Austrian chancellor, Christian Stocker. Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is the source for most of the figures in the reporting. Russia is named as the attacker in one report's headline, and by neither report's account of the blast itself.

What is at stake. The difference between a strike near a NATO border and an object crossing into NATO airspace is the difference between a national precaution and an alliance question. The North Atlantic Treaty lets any member call consultations when it believes its territory or its security is threatened, and treats an armed attack on one member as an attack on all.

Where it stands. The airspace and the two airports are open again, the jets are down, and the Polish defence ministry says nothing was seen over Poland.

The story so far

Earlier stories The AI Times filed on this thread.

What is being argued about

  • What exploded near the Polish border, and how hedged the account of it is
  • Whether anything crossed into Polish airspace
  • The Polish measures — closed airspace, two airports, fighters up — and their stand-down
  • Which figures we hold for the night's strikes, and whose they are
Two reports, one morningSide by side
QuestionGazeta WyborczaNOSHedged?
What exploded"probably a petrol station" near Jagodzin, Tusk saysexplosions "not far from the border"; nothing namedyes, in both
Who attackedRussia, in the headline only; no actor in the quoteno actor namedno actor in either account
Damage at the bordernot addressed"no damage to the border infrastructure, it appears"yes
Drones over Polandnot addressednone seen, the defence ministry saysattributed, not stated
Polish measures"our aircraft were scrambled"airspace partly shut for hours, two eastern airports closed, alarm sounded, jets upstated flat in both
Measures nownot addressedliftedstated flat
Ukrainian casualty figuresnonenineteen wounded, including two childrenattributed to Ukraine
What each report says, in its own words where it is quoting. "Not addressed" means the report does not raise it, not that it denies it.
Sources Gazeta Wyborcza
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Wojsko poderwało myśliwce. Tusk o ataku Rosji blisko granicy z Polską: Masywna eksplozja Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1 from 1246 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → NOS
Centre estimate · not a score
NOS 🇳🇱NL · public broadcaster · public-service Deel Poolse luchtruim urenlang dicht vanwege Russische aanvallen op Oekraïne Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at NOS → What we have measured Actor label The backers are labelled politically; the opponents, all other major parties, get no label ×1Actor named Names the Supreme Court as the court that withdrew the warrant. ×1Actor named and attributed Construction workers are named as having damaged a cable by accident, and the report attributes this to the aviation regulator. ×1Actor named, in passive Israeli airstrikes are named as what destroyed the building, but the sentence puts the building first ×1 from 2340 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Thursday morning, as the two reports have itTimeline
  1. Thu 17 Sep— no time published Russia fires on Ukraine overnight, with Kyiv and a neighbouring region the main targets, Ukraine says more than 100 missiles and dronesNOS, sourced to Ukraine
  2. Thu 17 Sep— no time published Poland closes part of its airspace and two eastern airports, sounds the air-raid alarm and scrambles fighter jets 2 airportsNOS; Tusk says the aircraft were scrambled
  3. Thu 17 Sep— no time published no actor named explosions sound not far from the border late in the morning; apparently no damage to the border infrastructure —NOS
  4. Thu 17 Sep10:55 published time on the report Donald Tusk, via Gazeta Wyborcza says a petrol station near Jagodzin in Ukraine was "probably" attacked, and that there was "a very massive explosion" —at a press conference with Austria's chancellor
  5. Thu 17 Sep13:12 published time on the report NOS reports the measures lifted, and the Polish defence ministry saying no drones were seen in Polish airspace 0 dronesattributed to the ministry
Neither report puts a clock time on anything it describes; the only times we have are the times the two pieces were published.
Sources Gazeta Wyborcza
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Wojsko poderwało myśliwce. Tusk o ataku Rosji blisko granicy z Polską: Masywna eksplozja Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1 from 1246 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → NOS
Centre estimate · not a score
NOS 🇳🇱NL · public broadcaster · public-service Deel Poolse luchtruim urenlang dicht vanwege Russische aanvallen op Oekraïne Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at NOS → What we have measured Actor label The backers are labelled politically; the opponents, all other major parties, get no label ×1Actor named Names the Supreme Court as the court that withdrew the warrant. ×1Actor named and attributed Construction workers are named as having damaged a cable by accident, and the report attributes this to the aviation regulator. ×1Actor named, in passive Israeli airstrikes are named as what destroyed the building, but the sentence puts the building first ×1 from 2340 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Every figure here comes from one report. What each one countsTable
FigureWhat it countsWhose figure
more than 100missiles and drones fired at Ukraine since the nightUkraine
19people wounded so far, two of them childrenUkraine
33places damaged in and around Kyiv by missile and drone impactsPresident Zelensky
2targets Ukraine says it hit inside Russia: an oil refinery at Yaroslavl, a military airfield at RostovPresident Zelensky
252bodies of dead soldiers and civilians handed to Ukraine by Russia, to be examined and identifiedstated by NOS, no source named
23sets of remains Ukraine handed backstated by NOS, no source named
0Russian accounts of any of this in the reports we hold—
All of these are carried by NOS; the Gazeta Wyborcza piece gives no figures at all.
Sources NOS
Centre estimate · not a score
NOS 🇳🇱NL · public broadcaster · public-service Deel Poolse luchtruim urenlang dicht vanwege Russische aanvallen op Oekraïne Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at NOS → What we have measured Actor label The backers are labelled politically; the opponents, all other major parties, get no label ×1Actor named Names the Supreme Court as the court that withdrew the warrant. ×1Actor named and attributed Construction workers are named as having damaged a cable by accident, and the report attributes this to the aviation regulator. ×1Actor named, in passive Israeli airstrikes are named as what destroyed the building, but the sentence puts the building first ×1 from 2340 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Gazeta Wyborcza
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Wojsko poderwało myśliwce. Tusk o ataku Rosji blisko granicy z Polską: Masywna eksplozja Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1 from 1246 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The bias in this coverageBias

An explosion with no author

Neither report we hold names who caused the blast near the Polish border: one has explosions that simply sounded, the other prints the Polish prime minister saying a petrol station was "probably" attacked, in the passive. The Polish defence ministry's statement that no drones entered Polish airspace is attributed to the ministry in one report and absent from the other. Both say the airspace and airports were closed; neither says on whose order.

2 reports we hold on this 0 reports naming who caused the explosion 1 hedges attached to the target struck 1 reports carrying the no-drones statement

Counted, not named

One report gives Ukraine's figure of nineteen wounded including two children, attributed to Ukraine, and no report names anyone hurt. The same report gives Russian strikes as fact and Ukraine's strikes on a refinery and an airfield as what Zelensky says. Bodies returned are counted in both directions, 252 to Ukraine and 23 to Russia.

1 reports giving a wounded figure 0 people hurt who are named 0 reports giving any Russian casualty figure
Scored without the mastheads. Where the two passes differ, both are kept.
Sources NOS
Centre estimate · not a score
NOS 🇳🇱NL · public broadcaster · public-service Deel Poolse luchtruim urenlang dicht vanwege Russische aanvallen op Oekraïne Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at NOS → What we have measured Actor label The backers are labelled politically; the opponents, all other major parties, get no label ×1Actor named Names the Supreme Court as the court that withdrew the warrant. ×1Actor named and attributed Construction workers are named as having damaged a cable by accident, and the report attributes this to the aviation regulator. ×1Actor named, in passive Israeli airstrikes are named as what destroyed the building, but the sentence puts the building first ×1 from 2340 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Gazeta Wyborcza
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Wojsko poderwało myśliwce. Tusk o ataku Rosji blisko granicy z Polską: Masywna eksplozja Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1 from 1246 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Claims and verdicts

true Polish airspace was partly closed and Polish fighter jets were scrambled.
NOS reports part of the airspace shut for hours, two eastern airports closed and jets sent up; Gazeta Wyborcza quotes Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a press conference saying "our aircraft were scrambled".
Checked against 2 sources:
NOS
Centre estimate · not a score
NOS 🇳🇱NL · public broadcaster · public-service Deel Poolse luchtruim urenlang dicht vanwege Russische aanvallen op Oekraïne Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at NOS → What we have measured Actor label The backers are labelled politically; the opponents, all other major parties, get no label ×1Actor named Names the Supreme Court as the court that withdrew the warrant. ×1Actor named and attributed Construction workers are named as having damaged a cable by accident, and the report attributes this to the aviation regulator. ×1Actor named, in passive Israeli airstrikes are named as what destroyed the building, but the sentence puts the building first ×1 from 2340 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Gazeta Wyborcza
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Wojsko poderwało myśliwce. Tusk o ataku Rosji blisko granicy z Polską: Masywna eksplozja Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1 from 1246 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified No drones entered Polish airspace.
Only NOS carries this, attributed to the Polish defence ministry; Gazeta Wyborcza's report does not address what did or did not cross the border.
Checked against 1 source:
NOS
Centre estimate · not a score
NOS 🇳🇱NL · public broadcaster · public-service Deel Poolse luchtruim urenlang dicht vanwege Russische aanvallen op Oekraïne Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at NOS → What we have measured Actor label The backers are labelled politically; the opponents, all other major parties, get no label ×1Actor named Names the Supreme Court as the court that withdrew the warrant. ×1Actor named and attributed Construction workers are named as having damaged a cable by accident, and the report attributes this to the aviation regulator. ×1Actor named, in passive Israeli airstrikes are named as what destroyed the building, but the sentence puts the building first ×1 from 2340 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified The explosion near the border struck a petrol station at Jagodzin in Ukraine.
Gazeta Wyborcza is the only report we hold on the target, and Tusk himself hedged it — "probably a petrol station"; NOS reports explosions not far from the border and apparently no damage to border infrastructure, without naming what was hit.
Checked against 2 sources:
Gazeta Wyborcza
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Wojsko poderwało myśliwce. Tusk o ataku Rosji blisko granicy z Polską: Masywna eksplozja Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1 from 1246 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → NOS
Centre estimate · not a score
NOS 🇳🇱NL · public broadcaster · public-service Deel Poolse luchtruim urenlang dicht vanwege Russische aanvallen op Oekraïne Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at NOS → What we have measured Actor label The backers are labelled politically; the opponents, all other major parties, get no label ×1Actor named Names the Supreme Court as the court that withdrew the warrant. ×1Actor named and attributed Construction workers are named as having damaged a cable by accident, and the report attributes this to the aviation regulator. ×1Actor named, in passive Israeli airstrikes are named as what destroyed the building, but the sentence puts the building first ×1 from 2340 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Who wrote it

K Katarzyna Rochowicz Gazeta Wyborcza
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Charge framing The suspicion is framed as offences under the explosives act and attributed to the county police×1
Headline claim the body does not carry the headline names Russia as the attacker; the quote it prints names no one×1
Named source Names the police force as its source, and gives no number of arrests×1
No actor named the strike has no attacker in the sentence, and the target is hedged×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
2 unverified2 true
From 34 reports we hold under this byline, at Gazeta Wyborcza. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
The bylines on the reports this story is built from. Hover one for what our passes have measured on their reporting. · 1 report we hold carries no byline — we do not invent one.

Coverage, outlet by outlet

NOS
Centre estimate · not a score
NOS 🇳🇱NL · public broadcaster · public-service Deel Poolse luchtruim urenlang dicht vanwege Russische aanvallen op Oekraïne Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at NOS → What we have measured Actor label The backers are labelled politically; the opponents, all other major parties, get no label ×1Actor named Names the Supreme Court as the court that withdrew the warrant. ×1Actor named and attributed Construction workers are named as having damaged a cable by accident, and the report attributes this to the aviation regulator. ×1Actor named, in passive Israeli airstrikes are named as what destroyed the building, but the sentence puts the building first ×1 from 2340 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — public-service
The only report that says what did not happen: the Polish defence ministry saw no drones in Polish airspace, apparently no damage to the border infrastructure, the measures lifted — plus every figure in the story
Een deel van het Poolse luchtruim is vanochtend gesloten geweest vanwege Russische aanvallen op het westen van Oekraïne. Ook twee Poolse vliegvelden in het oosten van het land werden uit voorzorg gesloten en het luchtalarm klonk. Het land stuurde straaljagers de lucht in. Inmiddels zijn de maatregelen ingetrokken. Het Poolse Ministerie van Defensie laat weten dat er geen drones in het Poolse luchtruim zijn gezien. Aan het einde van de ochtend klonken er explosies niet ver van de grens. Daarbij is geen schade ontstaan aan de grensinfrastructuur, zo lijkt het. Oekraïne ligt al sinds vannacht ond
Who is named as acting: the explosions sound with no actor named — “Aan het einde van de ochtend klonken er explosies niet ver van de grens.”
Hedged or stated: the absence of damage hedged twice in one sentence — “Daarbij is geen schade ontstaan aan de grensinfrastructuur, zo lijkt het.”
Anyone hurt counted or named: the wounded counted and attributed, none named; children counted separately — “Oekraïne zegt dat daarbij tot nu toe negentien mensen gewond zijn geraakt, onder wie twee kinderen.”
Symmetry of attribution: Ukraine under fire stated flat; Ukraine's own hits attributed to its president — “Daarbij is volgens Zelensky een olieraffinaderij in Jaroslavl geraakt en een militair vliegveld in Rostov.”
Figures for both sides: bodies returned given in both directions — “Oekraïne kreeg 252 lichamen overgedragen door Rusland.”
Attributed negative: the absence of drones is sourced to the defence ministry, not stated as fact — “Het Poolse Ministerie van Defensie laat weten dat er geen drones in het Poolse luchtruim zijn gezien.”
Hedge on damage: no damage to the border infrastructure, softened at the end of the sentence — “Daarbij is geen schade ontstaan aan de grensinfrastructuur, zo lijkt het.”
The hurt are counted, not named: a figure and an age group, attributed to Ukraine — “Oekraïne zegt dat daarbij tot nu toe negentien mensen gewond zijn geraakt, onder wie twee kinderen.”
Voice differs by side: one side hands over, the other gives back; both figures carried — “Oekraïne kreeg 252 lichamen overgedragen door Rusland. Die zullen worden onderzocht zodat ze kunnen worden geïdentificeerd. Oekraïne gaf de resten van 23 omgekomen personen terug.”
Read it at NOS → https://nos.nl/l/2631391
Gazeta Wyborcza
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Wojsko poderwało myśliwce. Tusk o ataku Rosji blisko granicy z Polską: Masywna eksplozja Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1 from 1246 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
The only report that names a target: Tusk, at a press conference with Austria's chancellor, saying a petrol station near Jagodzin was "probably" attacked and that there was "a very massive explosion".
Donald Tusk podczas konferencji prasowej z kanclerzem Austrii Christianem Stockerem poinformował, że "bardzo blisko polskiej granicy, koło ukraińskiego Jagodzina, zaatakowano prawdopodobnie stację benzynową". Jak dodał, "była bardzo masywna eksplozja". - Nasze samoloty zostały poderwane do akcji - mówił premier.
Headline claim the body does not carry: the headline names Russia as the attacker; the quote it prints names no one — “Wojsko poderwało myśliwce. Tusk o ataku Rosji blisko granicy z Polską: Masywna eksplozja”
Who is named as acting: the target hit in the passive and hedged, inside the prime minister's own words — “"bardzo blisko polskiej granicy, koło ukraińskiego Jagodzina, zaatakowano prawdopodobnie stację benzynową"”
No actor named: the strike has no attacker in the sentence, and the target is hedged — “bardzo blisko polskiej granicy, koło ukraińskiego Jagodzina, zaatakowano prawdopodobnie stację benzynową”
Scale stated flat: the size of the blast asserted without a measure, in the prime minister's words — “była bardzo masywna eksplozja”
Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,33029424,wojsko-poderwalo-mysliwce-tusk-o-a…
Checked, didn’t cover
D De Telegraaf
Centre-right estimate · not a score
De Telegraaf 🇳🇱NL · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accused named the accused is named and aged, and his not-guilty plea is carried ×1Accused's voice carries the not-guilty plea and names the accused ×1Actor named Authorities named as the ones who made the arrests ×1Asserted vs attributed 'blackmail' stated flat, with no source and no named state that applied it ×1 from 10020 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → P Público
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Público 🇵🇹PT · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Anyone hurt The only report carrying casualties gives a count and no names ×1Asserted or attributed the Saudi account arrives as a confirmation, not a claim ×1Casualties stated flat, unnamed the same two deaths are stated without source and without who killed them ×1Flat context The same Iran link is stated flat, with no source ×1 from 3295 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → D De Standaard
Centre estimate · not a score
De Standaard 🇧🇪BE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting on the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted vs attributed states sabotage flat, with no source ×1Asserted vs attributed states flat, with no source, that the officers were wrong to suspect him ×1Attribution The whole arrest is sourced second-hand to other media. ×1 from 4325 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Deník N
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Deník N 🇨🇿CZ · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named The headline names speculators as the actors who evicted a grandmother, stated flat. ×1Asserted, and a government judged A wave of Russian state terrorism is stated as fact and Germany is rated on its response; the piece is labelled a comment ×1Asserted, not attributed Washington's refusal and its reasoning stated flat, with no source ×1Assessment stated flat Says in its own voice, with no source, that Russian air defence worked well. ×1 from 1266 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → El Mundo
Centre-right estimate · not a score
El Mundo 🇪🇸ES · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named The dispute is between named Spanish officials over who was warned. There is no figure of Moroccan personnel. ×1Actor named The dispute is between named officials, and the report carries no figure. ×1Asserted, not attributed defiance of a named president is stated flat as what the meeting was ×1Asserted not attributed States Moscow's own reason, retaliation, as fact ×1 from 4700 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Brussels Signal
Right estimate · not a score
Brussels Signal 🇧🇪BE · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted vs attributed cause and effect on services asserted in the reporter's voice, no figure attached ×1Asserted vs attributed States record diesel prices flat, with no source; another report says there is no shortage ×1Asserted vs attributed The figure of 72 is stated flat, with no named source or document. The report's own inference is 'significant infiltration'. ×1Asserted vs attributed record diesel prices stated flat, with no figure and no source ×1 from 674 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Dagens Nyheter
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Dagens Nyheter 🇸🇪SE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accused label flat accused is labelled far-right without attribution, and not named ×1Affected counted Only report to count the residents affected ×1Asserted or attributed the majority stated flat, with nobody credited for the count ×1Asserted or attributed the demand is written as the report's own flat sentence before it is attributed to anyone ×1 from 3487 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Digi24
Centre estimate · not a score
Digi24 🇷🇴RO · TV/radio · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured A judgement of the Union quoted in the headline the premier's verdict on the Union printed as the headline claim ×1Asserted vs attributed states flat, with no source, that the attackers were separate from the shepherds ×1Asserted vs attributed States flat that the document is fake; another report sources this to the Order's ambassador ×1Attributed, not asserted Russia's account of where the strike happened is given to the Kremlin, with the news agency chain named ×1 from 5389 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Efimerida ton Syntakton
Left estimate · not a score
Efimerida ton Syntakton 🇬🇷GR · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Adjective without figure Calls the war bloody but gives no count ×1Anyone hurt named the only report we hold that names one of the dead ×1Anyone hurt named the only report we hold that names a person who died ×1Asserted not attributed Calls the move 'unprecedented' in its own voice ×1 from 8180 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Der Standard
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Der Standard 🇦🇹AT · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named NATO is named as acting; it 'foiled' the manoeuvre ×1Actor named dead uncounted The US is named as the attacker and stated flat, but the dead schoolchildren are neither counted nor named ×1Actors left unnamed the three requesting states are counted, never named ×1Aim attributed and quoted the stated aim is in quotation marks and marked as the service's account ×1 from 7330 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Observador
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Observador 🇵🇹PT · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accusation attributed The fuel retailers' charge is attributed, 'accuses'. No government response is carried. ×1Affected person unnamed the woman is not named, and no cause of the eviction is given ×1Analyst verdict as headline one commentator's judgement on European mood is the headline ×1Asserted or attributed the charge against two foreign states is carried as the prime minister's view, not the report's ×1 from 9741 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Telex
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Telex 🇭🇺HU · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor framed as giving The headline makes the government the actor, and what it does is support drivers. ×1Actor named NATO is named as acting; it 'chased them off' ×1Adopted term Uses the government's own phrase 'targeted support' without quotation marks ×1Asserted vs attributed 'under cover of night' attributed to Mária Schmidt, with the ministry's 8pm set beside it ×1 from 3231 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Welt
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Welt 🇩🇪DE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named The protests named as the cause of both the arrests and the injuries ×1Actor unnamed The party figure calling for a confidence vote is given only by title. ×1Age band without a share the winner's strength among the youngest voters is claimed with no percentage ×1Asserted flat The 'existential crisis' is stated as fact, not attributed to anyone. ×1 from 7442 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Frankfurter Allgemeine
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Frankfurter Allgemeine 🇩🇪DE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor label The Houthis are called a militia and are cast only as the threat ships need protecting from. ×1With no actor named critics 'After criticism', with no one named as the critic. ×1Anyone hurt counted gives an injury figure, attributed to the ministry, but does not say who was hurt or by whom ×1Asserted flat the report judges the offer vague in its own voice, unattributed ×1 from 8701 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Rzeczpospolita
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Rzeczpospolita 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accountability The only report to say prosecutors are investigating ×1Asserted not attributed Hungary's need for more time is stated as fact, not as the government's claim ×1Claim asserted flat says EU law has never known such an offer, with no lawyer, official or text cited ×1Correction carried the correction is in the lede, attributed to Lithuania ×1 from 5701 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Magyar Nemzet
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Magyar Nemzet 🇭🇺HU · newspaper · party-aligned No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accusers named as participants The headline names two current accusers as having taken part in the concession. ×1Aside aimed at one figure the handover is framed as reading homework for the opposition leader who asked for it ×1Asserted, not attributed The motive is stated in the report's own voice, hedged only by a rhetorical formula rather than by a source. ×1Asserted not attributed a contested motive is the entire lede, with no source for it ×1 from 2932 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Le Figaro
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Le Figaro 🇫🇷FR · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted, not attributed the capture of the strait and a "lightning offensive" are stated flat, with no source and no date ×1Asserted vs attributed The mayor's account and his opponents' charge are both attributed. ×1Asserted vs attributed The capture of the strait is stated flat, as settled background to a different story, with no source and no date for the claim. ×1Attacker identified by nationality in the headline ×1 from 7685 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Politico Europe
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Politico Europe 🇧🇪BE · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named vaguely The opponents are 'other capitals', with no country named ×1With no actor named accusation The coup accusation is in the passive; the accuser is not named ×1Asserted vs attributed The contradiction is stated as fact by the report, sourced only to unspecified official notes ×1Asserted vs attributed the stall stated flat in the headline, with Athens named as the actor that rejected ×1 from 1192 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → HotNews.ro
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HotNews.ro 🇷🇴RO · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accusation unanswered AUR's claim of a plan agreed between the president and PSD runs in the headline and lede. No reply from the president is carried. ×1Actor named Names the blocs that refuse any exemption ×1Anonymous sourcing The jamming device found in his car rests on unnamed judicial sources, relayed through a news agency. ×1Asserted not attributed the outcome is declared settled before voting opens ×1 from 4469 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → iDNES.cz / MF DNES
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iDNES.cz / MF DNES 🇨🇿CZ · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted vs attributed The cause and the forecast are both attributed to the bank's own statement ×1Asserted vs attributed The headline attributes the charge that Putin ordered the rules of war dropped to Zelensky ×1Attributed The facts are attributed to the Polish army in the lead sentence ×1Attributed the bridge damage is sourced to Kyiv's mayor on Telegram ×1 from 4739 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Svenska Dagbladet
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Svenska Dagbladet 🇸🇪SE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Attributed context The Iran link is hedged and credited to another newspaper ×1Hedged context Base's use for strikes on Iran is hedged and attributed to another paper ×1Hedged or flat a directional claim about the race stated flat, with no poll figure behind it ×1Loss stated flat, size not given a large loss asserted with no figure, and a coalition demand named in the same line ×1 from 3297 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Silence is recorded, not inferred — each of these was read when we built this story and carried nothing on this event.
We could not read these
ABC
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ABC 🇪🇸ES · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Figure chosen 80,000, stated flat and unsourced; every other report we hold says about 70,000 ×1Figure chosen 80,000 crossed, stated flat, no source for the number ×1How hard the claim is stated Calls it an invasion in the outlet's own voice, unattributed, inside a sentence about the judge. ×1Which figure is used same two days, no figure at all: thousands ×1 from 225 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Corriere della Sera
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Corriere della Sera 🇮🇹IT · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Kathimerini
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Kathimerini 🇬🇷GR · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Anyone hurt counted, not named the same first witness, identified by his job and as one of 57 ×1What is counted the only report that counts how many defendants actually turned up ×1Whose voice is quoted the only defendant's words we hold, three words, unrebutted and unexplained ×1Word for the event rail accident, and without the article, further loosening it from the case ×1 from 115 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Le Soir
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Le Soir 🇧🇪BE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Die Presse
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Die Presse 🇦🇹AT · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Who is named as acting Calls the party right and its people the far right in the outlet's own voice; three reports use only its name. ×1 from 70 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Il Giornale
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Il Giornale 🇮🇹IT · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Euractiv
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Euractiv 🇧🇪BE · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Measure chosen the only report we hold that breaks the result down by voters' age ×1Measure chosen the only report we hold that publishes how the age groups split ×1Which figure is used about 80,000 stated flat and unsourced — an order of magnitude above every other figure we hold ×1Which figure is used Puts 80,000 across the border in two days with no source for the figure and nobody attributed for it. ×1 from 41 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Le Monde
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Le Monde 🇫🇷FR · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Anyone hurt named or counted the only death toll we hold; a round number, hedged, nobody named ×1Anyone hurt named or counted the only report we hold that gives a death toll; it counts, does not name ×1Who says the label flat in the headline, no source, no hedge ×1 from 42 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → El País
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El País 🇪🇸ES · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Figure chosen more than 70,000 crossed, the higher figure not mentioned ×1Word for the event invasion, in quote marks and put in a party leader's mouth ×1Word for the event, attributed same word, but in quotation marks and inside a politician's accusation ×1 from 144 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → la Repubblica
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la Repubblica 🇮🇹IT · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Süddeutsche Zeitung
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Süddeutsche Zeitung 🇩🇪DE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Hedged or stated states flat that police do not know whether the person seen is the man they want ×1Suspect identified how age and home town only, and the sabotage is what police attribute, not what the report asserts ×1 from 257 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
These are must-cite outlets for this desk that we did not manage to read when we built this story. That is a gap in our reach, not a silence on their part, and it is not evidence of anything about this story.

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