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

Ukraine strikes Russian energy infrastructure; Mecca Alliance convenes as Iran hardens nuclear stance

Ukrainian forces conducted a sustained strike campaign against Russian energy and defense infrastructure on 24–25 September, inflicting material damage on key facilities. The Lukoil-Perm Oil Refinery in Perm (processing ~13 million tons crude annually) was struck by Ukrainian drones on 24–25 September with confirmed fire damage. The Novoshakhtinsk Oil Refinery in Rostov Oblast (processing ~7.5 million tons annually) also sustained confirmed fire damage in the same timeframe. Additionally, Ukrainian drones struck the Iskra Enterprise defense facility in Ulyanovsk (producing semiconductors and components for air-launched guided missiles including the Kh-59M2/M2A), the Voronezh Synthesis Rubber Plant, and the Yefremov Synthetic Rubber Plant in Tula Oblast (manufacturing solid rocket fuel for Iskander ballistic missiles). These strikes target Russia's ability to sustain military logistics and munitions production.

The Mecca Alliance—comprising Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan—held an emergency military coordination meeting in Riyadh on 25 September following intensified Houthi ballistic missile attacks on Saudi targets Taif and Yanbu on 24 September. Turkish Chief of General Staff Gen. Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu, Pakistan's Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Saudi Chief of General Staff Gen. Fayyadh Bin Hamed Al-Ruwaili discussed joint defense measures under their mutual defense pact. Turkish President Erdoğan clarified that the alliance addresses regional security rather than targeting Iran, Israel, or any third country, while Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan defended its effectiveness by comparison to NATO Article 5. Simultaneously, the Houthi movement signaled limited de-escalation, reiterating a commitment not to target European or American ships in the Red Sea, with talks facilitated through Oman.

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