Talking about the flat Ukrainian terrain Mapbox provides some 3D view capabilities that allow you to look at the frontline at an angle and see the battlefield from a different perspective. You can also notice how flat Huliaipole is compared to other directions.

Zs dont appreciate the competition.

Angarsk How it started how it goes

Huliaipole from 3 attacks in October to 20 attacks in December and 45 attacks in January to become the most intense front. Almost no reported attacks at Orikhiv so far as it belongs to different russian Army Group. Seems like Zaporizhzhia is in russian 2026 wishlist.

Fun fact Putin controls more land on the Planet than in Kupiansk.

THE AGE OF GLOBAL MAFIA We are entering what can be described as the age of global mafia. Not in the criminal sense, but in how power is exercised. Loyalty is transactional. Rules are flexible. Strength matters more than declared values.

Ukrainian road network

Topography, Rivers, Fortifications and Shadows of Mordor.

Territorial changes by half-year slices.

Russian attacked Kharkiv with Iskander-M

Expectations toward 2026 There are many components to military success, and the war is increasingly shifting into the diplomatic domain, which may ultimately shape the outcome. Technology will also affect the dynamics. Neither side has lost its ability to fight yet.

Dolina Schema with Denis Kapustin

December in two pictures

SBS December records review Sorties 130162!: 72091 strikes!, 58071 recon 31488 targets hit, 10886 destroyed, 6442 KIA, 5575 WIA 2.3 sorties per target, 40% of all the strikes on manpower 1275 strikes of drone launch positions and 1411 antennas 48 Strategic objects, 1 destroyed

GSUA 2025

Strike Summary There were 176 missiles (99 cruise missiles) and 5131 drones, including 3065 Shaheds. Of these, 63 missiles and 987 drones reached their targets. Energy infrastructure remained the primary target, pushing the power grid closer to its limits with each strike.

After 62K attacks and 416K IvanZ russia were able to capture an area that can fit inside Moscow Central Ring Road, for a budget of 50 such roads. Russia could literally paved the entirety of the captured area. But it's not about the price.

Striking December

The line been set, the first stage is complete, still more ground works to be done.

This time the focus was on Kyiv, as expected, nothing extraordinary happened, AD did a great job, as usual. 474/519 Drones 6/10 Ballistic-ish missiles 23/28 Cruise missiles 0/2 Kh-22 10 missiles and 25 drones hit 30 locations, 16 locations were damaged by debris 1 missile and 15 drones were lost.

The Winter is finally taking over the front and there are enough generalized data to look at. Assault activity and territorial dynamics: what to expect next quarter

GSUA and DeepState maps comparison. Pokrovsk, Huliapole and Siversk.

Compared Deepstate and AMK Maps The Difference is 732.01 km² along the 500km frontline. AMK follows MoD RF reports, DS match GSUA. Biggest difference by directions Huliaipole 232.31 km² Lyman 154.09 km² Pokrovsk 110.68 km² Official RF and UA maps differ a lot more than this.

Russian Assault to "FPV" use reverse correlation. The weather improved, russia got tired of attacks and made record-breaking 7601 FPV strikes and near the lowest 126 assaults, preparing for the next wave.

Attack on Energy Infrastructure of the Western Ukraine. 585/635 Drones (400 Shaheds) 34/35 Cruise 0/3 Kinzhal 39 hits on 21 locations, 8 were damaged by drones. All Kinzhals got lost, probably jammed to Lima.

Despite 9 days accumulation attack was limited as expected - 650 Drones looks like a hard cap. AFU are getting better in clearing the sky hence drones lose their effect for a distant targets. There must be 300 more drones reserve for a following attack for closer targets.

Multifunctional Jacket

Thousand drones for Christmas

Ukrainian fortifications in Zaporizhzhia. Sometime in November and got significantly extended since.

Project 22460 Okhotnik that used to be hosted in the Caspian Sea.

Magyar: 7500 in 19 days of December The enemy is rushing and increasing the pressure. Only in the hellish strips of Do, Po, Gp in 18 days of December, SBS Birds destroyed/damaged 4642 enemies: Dobropillia - 2580* Pokrovsk - 1027 Gulyaipil - 1035 other directions - 2858

What Kupiansk you captured today

SBS daily trends

The fog brought us 278 attacks and highest reported losses since March by GSUA

SBU made a strong statement by attacking Russian sub in a harbour with a torpedo drone. Limited operation that will reshape security of the Sea. Could be better but still great - less kalibr missile carriers, more Iscanders in future.

Combined attack focused on the energy infrastructure. No surprises. Odesa region was hurt the most this time and experience a blackout. 417/465 Drones 9/15 Kalibr 4/5 Iskander-K 0/5 Iskander-M 0/4 Kinzhal 18 locations hit, 3 by debris. 6 missiles were lost.

DS map of Kupiansk. AFU will try same approach in some other settlements. Such operations require a lot of assault troops and success isn't guaranteed.

SBS final score

SBS 500

Here we go again.

The Deadliest SBS day so far

A year ago Pokrovsk cluster was expected to fall by 2025. In a year russia was able to extend Western claw by 10km and Norther by 25km, capturing 1350km2 on the direction. By the end of 2024 Russians secured the western claw. The AFU tried to push them back but failed.

153 171 pixels of @en.zona.media getting closer to 360p 2022 - 18 829 (+915) 2023 - 39 016 (+6 362) 2024 - 54 409 (+28 304) 2025 - 18 365 *changes since project started in February.

Fastiv. Nothing but terror.

Russia continues targeting Ukraine's railway network - a key logistics artery - striking stations, depots, tracks, and trains. More than 800 attacks on a railway were reported in 2025, more than 300 since August. Here are some major nodes just in Two months.

Mass combined attack on energy infrastructure as usual and attacks on logistics this time. Russia systematically destroying Ukrainian infrastructure layer after layer. 585/653 Drones 29/34 Cruise Missiles 1/14 Iskander-M 0/3 Kinzhal 29 locations were hit directly and 3 indirectly

Topography and Settlements shape the fortifications. What also interesting is that Fortification really hold the expansion. Despite all the efforts no major fortification line been broken yet. Fortifications by @clementmolin.bsky.social

SBS yet another record.

The weather got better and there is a backlog for SBS to deal with. New all time records in total and eliminated.

in 3 years russians almost cut all the forest in the Siverskyi Donets valley.