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 war map. 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 conflict map. 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 Red Sea shipping attacks map. 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 — 2026-10-07
Russia marks Putin's 74th birthday with massed strikes; Iran signals deterrence amid regional realignment
Russia conducted a massive overnight massed strike campaign on October 6–7 coinciding with Putin's 74th birthday, deploying ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones across multiple Ukrainian cities. The strike package included 10 Iskander/RK-48U ballistic missiles on Kyiv from Bryansk, 4 Iskander-M/KN-23 systems on Dnipro from Voronezh and Taganrog, and 6 Zircon quasi-ballistic missiles from Millovo. Ukrainian air defense reported engagement of 161 targets across the strike wave, including 5 ballistic missiles, 39 cruise missiles (Kh-101, Iskander-K, Kalibr variants), and 117 drones. A five-story residential building in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, was struck directly, killing five and wounding 26. Zelensky publicly characterized the coordinated strike as Putin's 'birthday gift.' The cumulative campaign reflects sustained Russian firepower projection despite attrition.
Turkey has deployed air defense systems, combat aircraft, pilots, and special forces to Saudi Arabia, with technical teams already positioned to protect Riyadh, the holy cities, and critical energy infrastructure. This multilayered deployment reflects Saudi concerns about regional missile and drone threats, particularly from Houthi forces, which overnight fired two ballistic missiles and multiple drones at Aden International Airport, striking near a runway minutes before a civilian flight departure. The Saudi-led coalition intercepted and destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile north of Riyadh, confirming active air defense operations. Turkish involvement signals deepening defense coordination within the Arab Gulf states amid ongoing Houthi maritime aggression.
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