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 — 2026-09-26

Ukraine intensifies Russian rear strikes; Germany-Russia talks resume as Middle East diplomacy hardens

Ukraine conducted multiple precision strikes against Russian rear infrastructure on 25-26 September, targeting the Azov Optical-Mechanical Plant in Rostov Oblast, the Ilsky refinery in Krasnodar Krai, and the major Perm Lukoil facility. These operations follow a pattern of systematic strikes on six Russian oil refinery regions, reportedly creating a widening fuel crisis across Perm Krai, Nizhny Novgorod, Lipetsk, Bryansk, Yakutsk, and Moscow Oblast. Ukrainian forces additionally destroyed a P-18 Terek radar station and struck ammunition depots in Luhansk, degrading Russian command and control capabilities. These campaigns indicate sustained Ukrainian deep-strike capacity and continued targeting of Russian logistics despite air defense investments.

Saudi Arabia doubled down on Palestinian statehood language on 26 September, with Foreign Minister Prince Faisal reaffirming the kingdom's rejection of displacement and insistence on a two-state solution within 1967 borders. Simultaneously, Saudi welcomed the U.S. removal of Syria from the state sponsors of terrorism list, signaling alignment with Washington's Syria policy shift. Turkey and Saudi conducted military-technical coordination discussions focused on Houthi and northern security threats, indicating deepening bilateral defense cooperation. These statements reflect a broader regional consensus among major Arab states on Palestinian sovereignty, even as diplomatic posturing continues.

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