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 — 2026-09-14

Energy infrastructure under sustained pressure; diplomatic initiatives compete with escalating strikes across Middle East and Ukraine

Ukraine sustained intensive Russian drone operations while conducting deep-strike campaigns against Russian energy infrastructure. Ukrainian air defenses shot down or suppressed 85 Russian attack drones during the September 13-14 overnight assault, part of sustained Russian drone pressure involving 108 drones launched from multiple Russian regions. Simultaneously, Ukrainian forces executed strikes against strategic Russian targets: the Saratov Oil Refinery (7 million tons annual capacity), the Slavyansk-on-Kuban Oil Refinery (5.2 million tons capacity), and critically, the Novourengoyskyy gas condensate processing plant near Novy Urengoy—over 3,000 kilometers from Ukrainian territory—indicating extended-range strike capability. Russian drone operations killed civilians in Pavlohrad and struck a passenger train near the Poland border, where former CIA Director David Petraeus was evacuated. These operational patterns reflect mutual targeting of energy infrastructure asymmetric to geographic distance.

Saudi Arabia's critical energy infrastructure sustained confirmed damage on September 10 when drone and ballistic missile attacks struck two East-West Petroleum Pipeline pumping stations near Medina and Yanbu, with satellite imagery documenting heavy damage to facilities processing 4-5 million barrels daily. The UK is now reportedly considering Saudi requests for military support, including British military adviser deployments and oil infrastructure defense planning. These strikes represent the latest in a sustained campaign pressuring Gulf energy exports, though attribution remains contested. Meanwhile, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed it shot down a US MQ-1 reconnaissance drone over the Strait of Hormuz using newly deployed air defense systems—a claim lacking US confirmation. The cumulative effect signals intensifying pressure on global energy markets and regional military postures.

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