Russian Occupation Update
About this product line
ISW’s Russian Occupation Update provides a running intelligence estimate of how Russia is attempting to consolidate control and eliminate Ukrainian identity within occupied areas of Ukraine. Each biweekly update examines Russian efforts to consolidate administrative control of annexed areas and forcibly integrate Ukrainian citizens into Russian sociocultural, economic, military, and governance systems. The update includes supporting maps and geospatial intelligence products produced by ISW’s Geospatial Intelligence Team.
ISW launched this product line in March 2025. Insights into Russian occupation in Ukraine before this time can be found in the Russian Offensive Campaign Update product line or in the ISW Research Library.
Russian Occupation Update
Featured Insights
Russian Occupation Update
Research
Update
Sep 24, 2026
Static Map
Sep 24, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, September 17 to September 23, 2026
Special Report
Sep 23, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
The Kremlin’s Sham Elections Manufacture Legitimacy in Occupied Ukraine
Update
Sep 17, 2026
Static Map
Sep 17, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Russia Continues the Deportation of Female Political Prisoners to Penal Colonies Deep Within Russia, September 2026
Static Map
Sep 16, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, September 10 to September 16, 2026
Update
Sep 10, 2026
Static Map
Sep 9, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, September 3 to September 9, 2026
Update
Sep 3, 2026
Static Map
Sep 3, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, August 27 to September 2, 2026
Update
Aug 27, 2026
Static Map
Aug 26, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, August 20 to August 26, 2026
Update
Aug 21, 2026
Static Map
Aug 19, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Russia Reportedly Deported Crimean Tatar Prisoner of War Seryan Asanov to Vladimir Oblast, August 19, 2026
Static Map
Aug 19, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, August 14 to August 19, 2026
Update
Aug 14, 2026
Static Map
Aug 14, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, August 6 to August 13, 2026
Update
Aug 6, 2026
Static Map
Aug 6, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, July 30 to August 5, 2026
Static Map
Aug 6, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Russia Deported Crimean Tatar Political Prisoner Niyara Ersmambetova from Occupied Simferopol to a Penal Colony in Mordovia Republic, August 3, 2026
Update
Jul 30, 2026
Static Map
Jul 30, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, July 9 to July 29, 2026
Update
Jul 9, 2026
Static Map
Jul 8, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, July 2 to July 8, 2026
Update
Jul 2, 2026
Static Map
Jul 1, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, June 25 to July 1, 2026
Multimedia
Jun 29, 2026
Update
Jun 25, 2026
Static Map
Jun 24, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, June 18 to June 24, 2026
Static Map
Jun 24, 2026
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION UPDATERUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Reported Children’s Summer Camp Closures in Occupied Crimea as of June 24, 2026
Russia & Ukraine
Ukraine
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, September 17 to September 23, 2026
Russia & Ukraine
Ukraine
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, September 10 to September 16, 2026
Russia & Ukraine
Ukraine
Key Developments in Russian-occupied Ukraine, September 3 to September 9, 2026
Russian Occupation Update
FAQ
ISW does not receive any classified material from any source, uses only publicly available information, and draws extensively on Russian, Ukrainian, and Western reporting and social media as well as commercially available satellite imagery and other geospatial data as the basis for these reports. References to all sources used are provided in the endnotes of each update.
ISW does not gather information from human sources. References to all sources used are provided in the endnotes of each update.
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