On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine [3, 7, 11]. The world watched in real time as missiles struck Kyiv and Russian armour rolled across the border. Four years later, the event that once dominated every front page has been quietly archived. Hindsite's own tracker confirms the shift: in the past 24 hours, just 30 articles worldwide have been published on the war — and all 30 came from a single outlet.
This is not because the conflict has ended. Multiple outlets report that over 10,000 people have died, with more than 8.2 million displaced in Ukraine by the end of 2023 [17, 22, 27]. The fighting continues, the casualties mount, the displacement persists. What has ended is the media's attention span.