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 — 2026-09-23

Iran escalates rhetoric as U.S. walks out UN speech; Russia probes NATO, Ukraine faces continuous drone strikes

Russian military operations on the Ukraine front showed no indication of pause on 23 September. The Russian Ministry of Defense explicitly reaffirmed commitment to 'continued military action,' rejecting any de-escalation framework. Ukrainian air monitoring tracked multiple Russian Shahed-type reactive drones in transit toward Kyiv and regional targets throughout the day, with air raid alerts continuously activated across Kyiv Oblast, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Odesa regions. A Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv killed two civilians and wounded approximately twenty, striking a five-storey business center and residential buildings across multiple districts. President Zelensky assessed the battlefield situation negatively for Putin, noting that Russia makes no territorial gains while accepting 'massive casualties as acceptable losses' in its strategic calculus.

Iranian President Pezeshkian delivered a confrontational address to the UN General Assembly, displaying photographs of children killed in airstrikes and condemning Israel's nuclear arsenal while criticizing international double standards that permit Israeli weapons development but sanction Iran's peaceful nuclear program. The U.S. delegation walked out during the address in protest. Pezeshkian referenced the July 2024 killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniye in Tehran and cited over 70,000 deaths in Gaza, framing the issue as a matter of international law and humanitarian accountability. This rhetorical positioning reflects Iran's sustained criticism of Western-backed Israeli military operations across the region.

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