Assessed Russian control
Assessed Russian advances
Claimed Russian control
Claimed Ukrainian counteroffensives
Belarus
Chernobyl Nuclear
Power Plant
Russia
Chernihiv
Pol.
Lutsk
Kyiv
Lviv
Kharkiv
Luhansk
Ukraine
Densely
populated
areas
Dnipro
Donetsk
Zaporizhzhia
Moldova
Mariupol
Mykolaiv
Controlled
by Russian- backed
separatists
since 2014
Kherson
Odesa
Romania
CRIMEA
Sevastopol
Annexed
by Russia
in 2014
Black Sea
Data as of Sept. 26, 2022 at 3 p.m. ET
Notes: “Assessed” means the Institute for the Study of War has received reliable and independently verifiable information to demonstrate Russian control or advances in those areas. Russian advances are areas where Russian forces have operated in or launched attacks, but they do not control them. “Claimed” areas are where sources have said control or counteroffensives are occurring, but ISW cannot corroborate nor demonstrate them to be false.
Sources: The Institute for the Study of War with AEI’s Critical Threats Project; LandScan HD for Ukraine, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Graphic: Renée Rigdon, CNN
Assessed Russian control
Assessed Russian advances
Claimed Russian control
Claimed Ukrainian counteroffensives
Belarus
Chernobyl Nuclear
Power Plant
Russia
Chernihiv
Pol.
Lutsk
Kyiv
Lviv
Kharkiv
Luhansk
Ukraine
Densely
populated
areas
Dnipro
Donetsk
Zaporizhzhia
Moldova
Mariupol
Mykolaiv
Controlled
by Russian- backed
separatists
since 2014
Kherson
Odesa
Romania
CRIMEA
Sevastopol
Annexed
by Russia
in 2014
Black Sea
Data as of Sept. 26, 2022 at 3 p.m. ET
Notes: “Assessed” means the Institute for the Study of War has received reliable and independently verifiable information to demonstrate Russian control or advances in those areas. Russian advances are areas where Russian forces have operated in or launched attacks, but they do not control them. “Claimed” areas are where sources have said control or counteroffensives are occurring, but ISW cannot corroborate nor demonstrate them to be false.
Sources: The Institute for the Study of War with AEI’s Critical Threats Project; LandScan HD for Ukraine, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Graphic: Renée Rigdon, CNN
Assessed Russian advances
Assessed Russian control
Claimed Russian control
Claimed Ukrainian counteroffensives
Belarus
Voronezh
Chernobyl Nuclear
Power Plant
Kursk
Poland
Chernihiv
Russia
Lutsk
Kyiv
Lviv
Kharkiv
Luhansk
Slovakia
Densely
populated
areas
Ukraine
Dnipro
Donetsk
Hungary
Zaporizhzhia
Controlled
by Russian-
backed
separatists
since 2014
Mariupol
Moldova
Mykolaiv
Kherson
Sea of
Azov
Odesa
Romania
Krasnodar
CRIMEA
Sevastopol
Annexed by
Russia in 2014
Serbia
Black Sea
Data as of Sept. 26, 2022 at 3 p.m. ET
Notes: “Assessed” means the Institute for the Study of War has received reliable and independently verifiable information to demonstrate Russian control or advances in those areas. Russian advances are areas where Russian forces have operated in or launched attacks, but they do not control them. “Claimed” areas are where sources have said control or counteroffensives are occurring, but ISW cannot corroborate nor demonstrate them to be false.
Sources: The Institute for the Study of War with AEI’s Critical Threats Project; LandScan HD for Ukraine, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Graphic: Renée Rigdon, CNN
