Assessed Russian control
Assessed Russian advances
Claimed Russian control
Claimed Ukrainian counteroffensives
Russia
Lipetsk
region
Belarus
Chernobyl Nuclear
Power Plant
Kursk
region
Pol.
Vovchansk
Reported
Ukrainian
Incursion
Lutsk
Kyiv
Luhansk
Lviv
Kharkiv
Kostiantynivka
Ukraine
Densely
populated
areas
Pokrovsk
Donetsk
Moldova
Mariupol
Mykolaiv
Controlled
by Russian- backed
separatists
since 2014
Kherson
Romania
Odesa
CRIMEA
Sevastopol
Annexed
by Russia
in 2014
Black Sea
Data as of Aug. 8, 2024 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: Lou Robinson and Renée Rigdon, CNN
Assessed Russian control
Assessed Russian advances
Claimed Russian control
Claimed Ukrainian counteroffensives
Russia
Belarus
Lipetsk
region
Chernobyl Nuclear
Power Plant
Kursk
region
Reported
Ukrainian
incursion
Pol.
Vovchansk
Lutsk
Sumy
Kyiv
Luhansk
Kharkiv
Lviv
Kostiantynivka
Densely
populated
areas
Ukraine
Pokrovsk
Donetsk
Moldova
Mariupol
Mykolaiv
Controlled
by Russian- backed
separatists
since 2014
Kherson
Romania
Odesa
CRIMEA
Sevastopol
Annexed
by Russia
in 2014
Black Sea
Data as of Aug. 8, 2024 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: Lou Robinson and Renée Rigdon, CNN
Assessed Russian control
Assessed Russian advances
Claimed Russian control
Claimed Ukrainian counteroffensives
Lipetsk
region
Belarus
Kursk
region
Voronezh
Chernobyl Nuclear
Power Plant
Kursk
Reported
Ukrainian
incursion
Poland
Russia
Lutsk
Belgorod
Sumy
Kyiv
Kharkiv
Lviv
Vovchansk
Luhansk
Slovakia
Densely
populated
areas
Ukraine
Kostiantynivka
Ivano-Frankivsk
Dnipro
Donetsk
Pokrovsk
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 Aug. 8, 2024 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: Lou Robinson and Renée Rigdon, CNN