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
Turkey deploys to Saudi Arabia; Russia mounts birthday strike barrage on Ukraine
Russia conducted a massive massed strike campaign across Ukraine on October 6–7 coinciding with Vladimir Putin's 74th birthday, striking multiple cities including Kyiv, Pryluky, Kremenchuk, and Dnipro. Ballistic missiles including Iskander variants and North Korean KN-23 systems struck civilian and military targets. A five-story residential building in Pryluky was destroyed, killing 18 civilians including four children aged one, one, one, and eight years, with at least 55 injured. Multiple sources confirm 10 Iskander/RK-48U missiles targeted Kyiv, 4 targeting Dnipro, and 6 Zircon quasi-ballistic missiles from the Black Sea Fleet. This represents an intensification of the attrition campaign utilizing the symbolic date to compound psychological pressure on Ukrainian civilian populations.
Turkey, Pakistan, and reportedly other allied forces are deploying military personnel and air defense systems to Saudi Arabia as part of a coordinated defensive posture against Houthi threats. Turkey has deployed pilots, combat aircraft, special forces, and technical teams to protect Riyadh, Mecca, Medina, and critical energy infrastructure. This multilateral 'Mecca Alliance' deployment, endorsed by the Trump administration, reflects Saudi Arabia's struggle to manage sustained Houthi missile and drone attacks despite ongoing coalition operations. A tanker was struck by multiple projectiles north of Qatar on October 7, with casualties reported, while Houthis conducted additional missile attacks on Riyadh and Abha airports. The coalition reported destruction of a ballistic missile launcher in Sana'a targeting Riyadh.
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