Ukraine–Russia is updated weekly. Mali and the Caucasus are updated when major developments are verified. Baseline reference pages are reviewed progressively — which is why the latest brief can come from any module.
Vigil currently covers 3 published conflict modules: Ukraine–Russia in Eastern Europe; Mali in Sahel / West Africa; Caucasus in South Caucasus / North Caucasus. Full details in the coverage cards below.
Coverage orientation only — markers are approximate regional anchors for published modules, not conflict extents or current activity.
The largest interstate war in Europe since 1945, now an attritional contest of industrial capacity, manpower, and political endurance. Its outcome will set the price of territorial aggression for a generation — which is why capitals far from Kyiv treat it as a referendum on their own security.
24Key events
141Force Atlas records
135Equipment records
49Mapped locations
Module 001Interstate warStatus Public alphaWeeklyLast reviewed 2026-07-12Latest brief 2026-07-12
Mali is an overlapping conflict system, not a two-sided war: jihadist insurgency, Azawad separatism, military rule, foreign security partnerships, regional competition, humanitarian crisis and economic stress, all running at once. There is no clean front line — the state holds the cities while the roads between them are contested by its enemies, and in 2026 both the north and the capital's approaches came under pressure at the same time.
25Key events
36Force Atlas records
25Equipment records
35Mapped locations
Module 002Conflict systemStatus Public alphaEvent-drivenLast reviewed 2026-07-15Latest brief 2026-07-15
Armenia–Azerbaijan, Georgia's breakaway regions, Chechnya, and the corridors reshaping Russia's southern frontier. The Caucasus is not one war: it is a linked regional security system in which unresolved conflicts, de facto states, Soviet-drawn borders, displacement, energy routes and the competing interests of Russia, Türkiye, Iran and the West all act on each other — and in which Russia's absorption in Ukraine has set the whole system moving at once.
39Key events
11Force Atlas records
6Equipment records
26Mapped locations
Module 003Regional systemStatus Public alphaMonthly / event-drivenLast reviewed 2026-07-18Latest brief 2026-07-18