Russia Secretly Offers to Stop Sharing Iran Intelligence with US in Exchange for Ending Ukraine Aid

Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev secretly proposes to US officials Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner that Russia will stop sharing Iranian military intelligence — including coordinates of US assets in the Middle East — if the US ends intelligence support to Ukraine. The US rejects the offer.

In a meeting in Miami around March 20, Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev presented US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner with an extraordinary proposal: Russia would halt its intelligence-sharing with Iran — including sensitive data such as the precise coordinates of US military installations in the Middle East — if the United States agreed to stop providing intelligence support to Ukrainian forces. The proposal, reported by Politico and confirmed by sources familiar with the matter, revealed the depth of Russia-Iran intelligence cooperation during the 2026 war and gave US officials a rare window into Moscow's dual leverage over both conflicts. Washington rejected the offer. European officials were alarmed when word of the proposal emerged, characterizing it as an attempt by Moscow to reshape the diplomatic landscape surrounding both the Ukraine and Iran wars simultaneously. Russia denied the report, with Dmitriev calling it "fake" on X, and the Kremlin dismissing it as "Western disinformation." Kyiv Post and defense analysts noted the offer's implication: that Russia was actively providing Iran with targeting intelligence that endangered American forces — an act of covert hostility that fell short of open war with the United States.