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 — 2026-09-25
Regional escalation patterns emerge: Mecca Alliance mobilizes; Ukraine sustains deep strikes on Russian energy
Ukrainian forces sustained a multi-vector campaign against Russian energy and defense infrastructure on the night of 24–25 September. Strikes targeted the Lukoil-Perm Oil Refinery (13 million tons annual capacity), Novoshakhtinsk Oil Refinery (7.5 million tons annually), Iskra Enterprise defense semiconductor facility (Ulyanovsk), Voronezh Synthesis Rubber Plant, and Yefremov Synthetic Rubber Plant (solid rocket fuel production for Iskander missiles). Fires were confirmed at multiple facilities. Ukrainian intelligence indicated preparations for expanded strike campaigns using drones and missiles in coming days. These operations represent sustained targeting of Russian military-industrial capacity and energy infrastructure, consistent with months-long campaign patterns designed to degrade supply chains for weapons production.
Military coordination among Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia accelerated following intensified Houthi ballistic missile attacks on Saudi targets (Taif, Yanbu) on 24 September. The three nations convened urgent chiefs-of-staff meetings in Riyadh under the Mecca Joint Defence Pact framework, marking the first operational activation of the alliance. Turkish President Erdoğan characterized the pact as a regional security arrangement rather than an alliance against specific states, though the timing suggests response to Houthi maritime and aerial threats. Concurrently, Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif declared the holy sites a strategic red line, while Saudi military leadership participated in substantive defense coordination. This trilateral mobilization represents a shift toward institutionalized collective defense in the Arabian Peninsula.
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