What is Intel Mapper

Intel Mapper is a live open-source-intelligence (OSINT) war map. It follows two theatres around the clock: the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the wider Middle East, from the Israel–Lebanon front and Syria to Yemen, the Red Sea and the Gulf. Every marker on the map is a single, dated event: a strike, a shoot-down, a ground assault, a naval incident, a capture, or a significant political statement, placed at the most precise location the sources support.

Events are gathered from monitored Telegram channels, X accounts, official military statements (for example the Ukrainian General Staff) and mapping projects such as DeepState and the Wikipedia conflict maps. Each report is read by a language model that extracts what happened, who did it, where and when, and then passed through a chain of deterministic checks: duplicate detection across channels, geocoding against our own settlement gazetteer and OpenStreetMap, country and region consistency guards, and frontline snapping for close-combat reports.

Every event carries a confidence score and a source count. One channel claiming a strike is not the same as three independent channels plus satellite-derived thermal detections, and the map shows that difference. Uncertain locations are drawn with an orange ring instead of a hard pin. Our methodology page explains the scoring in detail.

How to use the map

Switch theatres with the buttons at the top. The layer panel lets you toggle borders and control zones, event markers, the heat-map of activity, live military flights and US bases, and the Recent changes layers that hatch every area which changed hands in the last seven days (DeepState for Ukraine, Wikipedia-derived control maps for the Middle East). Click any marker for the full report, media and sources; click a control zone for its statistics. The time slider at the bottom replays borders and the previous 24 hours of events for any day since February 2026. A daily brief for each theatre is published every evening.

Coverage areas

Ukraine. The full contact line from Kharkiv to Kherson, deep-strike campaigns on Russian refineries, air bases and logistics, and Russian drone and missile waves against Ukrainian cities, with control changes taken from DeepState.

Middle East. The Israel–Lebanon front, Syria after Assad, the West Bank and Gaza, Iraq, and Iranian activity, including strikes on shipping and Gulf infrastructure.

Yemen and the Red Sea. The Houthi–Government war, Houthi attacks on shipping, coalition strikes, and control of the Bab al-Mandab approaches, using the Wikipedia control map and verified capture reports.

Today's brief — 2026-10-02

Red Sea escalation, Russian air campaign intensifies; Ukraine strikes Russian energy infrastructure

Russian air operations against Ukraine intensified on 2 October with strikes on critical infrastructure and continued mass drone campaigns. Russian airstrikes struck Kyiv's Pivdennyi (Southern) Bridge over the Dnieper River, a critical crossing connecting south Kyiv to routes toward Odesa and Kharkiv; the bridge was closed to traffic following impact. Russian air defenses conducted operations against Ukrainian aircraft, though a friendly-fire incident occurred when a Russian Su-35 fighter jet accidentally shot down a friendly Mi-8 transport helicopter over Liski, Voronezh Oblast, reportedly after mistaking it for a Ukrainian aircraft. Overnight 1-2 October, Russian forces launched 108 attack drones from Bryansk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and occupied Donbas/Crimea; Ukrainian air defenses reported shooting down or suppressing 88 drones (Shahed, Gerbera variants, and decoys). Multiple Shahed-variant reactive-powered drones were tracked transiting toward Kyiv from northern and southern approaches throughout the period.

Maritime security deteriorated across the Middle East theater on 2 October. Iran escalated anti-shipping operations in the Strait of Hormuz, reportedly conducting approximately 30 drone and 10 anti-ship missile attacks weekly since early August, with at least four commercial vessels struck in the past ten days. A Panama-flagged oil tanker was struck by projectile fire while transiting the strait on 2 October, with smoke visible from the vessel per maritime security firm Ambrey. These incidents reflect systematic Iranian pressure on shipping, prompting the U.S. to deploy additional Patriot air-defense batteries to protect Saudi and Qatari energy infrastructure. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar publicly opposed Iran's control of the strait, stating no tolls or fees should be charged on vessels transiting the chokepoint, signaling emerging regional consensus against Iranian pricing mechanisms.

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