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 — 2026-10-03

U.S.-Iran tensions escalate amid regional strikes; Ukraine sustains deep strikes on Russian infrastructure

Ukrainian forces executed deep strikes into Russian territory, targeting military infrastructure systematically. President Zelensky confirmed strikes on Russian Iskander missile systems in Bryansk Oblast and authorized targeting of Russian oil refineries in response to attacks on Ukrainian bridges and energy infrastructure. Ukrainian long-range strikes reportedly struck Belgorod city, a Kaluga radio tube plant producing military electronic components, and Russian military supply depots in Belgorod Oblast. These operations represent Ukraine's sustained strategy of degrading Russian logistical capacity and revenue-generating military-industrial targets. The campaign reflects Ukrainian doctrine of asymmetric retaliation—matching Russian strikes on civilian infrastructure with precision strikes on military-industrial nodes within Russian territory.

Diplomatic friction between Washington and Tehran intensified as the U.S. State Department expelled two Iranian diplomats from New York following the UN General Assembly, marking a hardening of confrontational posture. Concurrently, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered stark warnings to Iran, asserting American control over the Strait of Hormuz and threatening military action if Iran does not surrender nuclear and strategic leverage. These statements reflect sustained U.S. pressure campaigns against Iranian regional influence, coupled with assertions of naval dominance over critical Persian Gulf chokepoints. Iranian responses included military commander Amir Nakdi's conditional warning that if the U.S. acts irrationally while Iran is cornered, unpredictable consequences could follow—classic deterrent rhetoric masking underlying vulnerability to U.S. military superiority.

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