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 activeies 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.