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 war map. 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 conflict map. 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 Red Sea shipping attacks map. 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 — 2026-10-07

Russia sustains massive overnight strike campaign; Israel reports 100k cumulative strikes across theatres

Russia executed a massed overnight ballistic and cruise missile strike across Ukraine with multiple strike packages originating from interior Russian territory. Confirmed launches included 10 Iskander/RK-48U ballistic missiles from Bryansk targeting Kyiv, 4 Iskander-M/KN-23 variants from Voronezh and Taganrog targeting Dnipro, and 6 Zircon quasi-ballistic missiles from undisclosed origin. Cruise missile groups consisting of multiple Kh-101 variants and Kalibr systems tracked toward Pryluky, Kremenchuk, Oleksandriya, and other interior targets. This represents a sustained multi-vector strike pattern characteristic of recent Russian operational tempo, with geographic distribution across central and northern Ukraine.

The Israeli military released cumulative strike data spanning three years of operations, reporting 100,000 total strikes across multiple theatres since October 7, 2023. The breakdown reveals concentrated pressure on Gaza with approximately 65,000 strikes, followed by 28,000 across Lebanon and Syria, 4,500 against Iranian targets, and 80 strikes into Yemen. This metric underscores the sustained intensity and geographic scope of Israeli air operations, though it does not differentiate between strike types, munition payloads, or damage assessments. The figure serves as an operational summary of campaign scale rather than a measure of tactical or strategic outcome.

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