Assessed Russian control

Assessed Russian advances

Belarus

Russia

Luhansk

Pol.

Kupiansk

Lutsk

Sumy

Kyiv

Lviv

Kharkiv

Kremenchuk

Densely

populated

areas

Chasiv Yar

Ukraine

Dnipro

Kryvyi Rih

Donetsk

Moldova

Mariupol

Mykolaiv

Controlled

by Russian- backed

separatists

since 2014

Kherson

Romania

Odesa

CRIMEA

Sevastopol

Annexed

by Russia

in 2014

Black Sea

Assessed Russian control

Assessed Russian advances

Belarus

Russia

Luhansk

Pol.

Lutsk

Sumy

Kupiansk

Kyiv

Lviv

Kharkiv

Kremenchuk

Densely

populated

areas

Chasiv Yar

Ukraine

Dnipro

Kryvyi Rih

Donetsk

Moldova

Mariupol

Mykolaiv

Controlled

by Russian- backed

separatists

since 2014

Kherson

Romania

Odesa

CRIMEA

Sevastopol

Annexed

by Russia

in 2014

Black Sea

Assessed Russian control

Assessed Russian advances

Belarus

Russia

Voronezh

Chernobyl Nuclear

Power Plant

Kursk

Poland

Lutsk

Belgorod

Sumy

Kyiv

Kharkiv

Lviv

Kupiansk

Kremenchuk

Ukraine

Densely

populated

areas

Chasiv Yar

Ivano-Frankivsk

Luhansk

Dnipro

Pokrovsk

Kryvyi Rih

Donetsk

Zaporizhzhia

Mariupol

Moldova

Mykolaiv

Controlled

by Russian-

backed

separatists

since 2014

Odesa

Kherson

Sea of

Azov

Romania

Krasnodar

CRIMEA

Sevastopol

Annexed by

Russia in 2014

Black Sea

Data as of October 20, 2025

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.

Sources: The Institute for the Study of War with AEI’s Critical Threats Project; LandScan HD for Ukraine, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Graphic: Henrik Pettersson, Renée Rigdon, Lou Robinson and Rachel Wilson, CNN