Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
About this product line
ISW’s Russia and Ukraine team produces the maps and analysis of record of the war in Ukraine. The Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment provides a synthetic running intelligence estimate of Putin’s political and military objectives in Ukraine and the design, prosecution, and outcomes of Russia’s war effort. ISW has published this update daily since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Each update includes an assessment of the latest battlefield changes at the operational and tactical levels of war as well as an updated strategic assessment and forecast of the war’s trajectory along with numerous supporting maps produced by ISW’s Geospatial Intelligence Team. This product line also includes prominent warning alerts.
The first two years of this product line also included detailed insights into Russian supporting efforts in Ukraine including force generation efforts, technological adaptation, Russian activities in occupied Ukraine, Russian information operations, and Russian efforts to de facto annex Belarus. In April 2024, ISW launched two new product lines to explore these Russian activities in occupied Ukraine and Russian force generation efforts in greater depth. Insights into these topics since April 2024 can be found at the links below.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
Research
Update
Aug 27, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 27, 2026
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Aug 27, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Russian Incursions into Romanian and Moldovan Airspace, August 1-27, 2026
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Aug 27, 2026
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Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov’s Claimed Advances versus Assessed Frontline in the Slovyansk Direction: Assessed Control of Terrain as of August 27, 2026
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Aug 27, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov’s Claimed Advances versus Assessed Frontline in the Kramatorsk Direction: Assessed Control of Terrain as of August 27, 2026
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Aug 27, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov’s Claimed Advances versus Assessed Frontline in the Druzhkivka Direction: Assessed Control of Terrain as of August 27, 2026
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Aug 27, 2026
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Assessed Control of Terrain in the Russo-Ukrainian War, August 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 27, 2026
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Assessed Control of Terrain in Northern Sumy Oblast, August 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 27, 2026
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Assessed Control of Terrain in the Slovyansk Direction, August 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 27, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Assessed Control of Terrain near Kostyantynivka, August 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 27, 2026
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Assessed Control of Terrain in Eastern Zaporizhia Oblast, August 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 26, 2026
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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 26, 2026
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Aug 26, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Assessed Control of Terrain in the Russo-Ukrainian War, August 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 26, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Assessed Control of Terrain in the Sumy Direction, August 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 26, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Assessed Control of Terrain in the Velykyi Burluk Direction, August 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 26, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Assessed Control of Terrain in the Slovyansk Direction, August 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 26, 2026
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Assessed Control of Terrain in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka Tactical Area, August 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 26, 2026
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Assessed Control of Terrain near Kostyantynivka, August 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 26, 2026
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Assessed Control of Terrain in the Dobropillya Tactical Area, August 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 26, 2026
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Assessed Control of Terrain in the Novopavlivka Direction, August 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 26, 2026
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Assessed Control of Terrain in Eastern Zaporizhia Oblast, August 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 26, 2026
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Assessed Control of Terrain in the Orikhiv Direction, August 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 26, 2026
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Assessed Control of Terrain in the Fortress Belt, August 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 25, 2026
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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 25, 2026
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Aug 25, 2026
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Reported Russian Strikes Against Bridges and Border Crossings along the Ukrainian-Moldovan Border, August 25, 2026
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Aug 25, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Assessed Control of Terrain in the Russo-Ukrainian War, August 25, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 25, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Assessed Control of Terrain in the Sumy Direction, August 25, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 25, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Assessed Control of Terrain in Kharkiv Oblast, August 25, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 25, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Assessed Control of Terrain in the Borova Tactical Area, August 25, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 25, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Assessed Control of Terrain in the Lyman Tactical Area, August 25, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Aug 25, 2026
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTRUSSIA & UKRAINEUKRAINE
Assessed Control of Terrain in the Dobropillya Tactical Area, August 25, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
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Methodology
Analytic
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 forecast Ukrainian actions, collect on Ukrainian activities beyond Ukrainian officials’ public statements and Russian or public reporting on Ukrainian activities, or map Ukrainian units’ locations.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
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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