Russia allegedly sharing satellite intelligence on US bases with Iran, world leader claims

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russian reconnaissance satellites person precocious imaged cardinal U.S. and allied subject accommodation crossed nan Middle East, raising concerns astir imaginable targeting, aft returning from a high-stakes travel to Gulf countries now nether Iranian attack.

Zelenskyy’s remarks travel arsenic Ukraine deepens its domiciled successful nan region, sharing intelligence and defense expertise pinch Middle Eastern partners facing Iranian rocket and drone strikes.

In a March 28 station connected X, Zelenskyy said he had been briefed that Russian satellites photographed aggregate strategical sites "in nan interests of Iran," including bases and captious power infrastructure crossed nan Gulf.

"Everyone knows that repeated reconnaissance indicates preparations for strikes," he wrote.

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A outer image from Planet Labs shows a plume of fume supra Tehran, Iran connected March 1, 2026. (Planet Labs PBC)

According to Zelenskyy, nan surveillance occurred complete respective days successful precocious March. On March 24, Russian satellites reportedly captured imagery of nan U.S.-U.K. subject installation connected Diego Garcia successful nan Indian Ocean. The pursuing days included Kuwait International Airport and parts of nan Greater Burgan lipid field, arsenic good arsenic Prince Sultan Air Base successful Saudi Arabia.

Additional sites imaged connected March 26 included Saudi Arabia’s Shaybah lipid and state field, Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base, and Al Udeid Air Base successful Qatar, 1 of nan largest U.S. subject installations successful nan region.

Some of nan locations identified by Zelenskyy, including places successful Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, person been targeted successful caller Iranian attacks, though it remains unclear whether nan outer imagery he described was straight utilized successful those operations.

The informing follows Zelenskyy’s caller sojourn to Saudi Arabia, nan United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Jordan, wherever he discussed information practice and shared intelligence pinch location leaders.

Incirlik Air Base, Turkey rider terminal. (U.S. Air Force)

In an question and reply published Monday by Axios, Zelenskyy said Ukraine had provided Middle Eastern partners pinch accusation astir Russian support for Iran, including imaginable targeting assistance.

"I deliberation Russia is supporting Iran directly, 100%," Zelenskyy told Axios. "The aforesaid format of sharing outer images for illustration they did successful nan lawsuit of Ukraine."

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Map of US subject bases Iran could target (Fox News)

Ksenia Svetlova, an subordinate chap astatine Chatham House, said caller developments constituent to accrued practice successful that space. "There is much practice successful everything that has to do pinch intelligence," she said, citing reports that Russia has provided Iran pinch "a target list, basically, done their satellites, American targets, but besides aerial targets successful nan Gulf."

Svetlova added that specified support enables Russia to assistance Iran without deploying troops aliases equipment.

"They are doing for nan Iranians immoderate they tin without spending money, spending troops, aliases spending equipment," she said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds his yearly end-of-year property convention successful Moscow connected Dec. 19, 2024. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)

The White House has not confirmed nan intelligence-sharing but said it is not impacting U.S. operations.

"Nothing provided to Iran by immoderate different state is affecting our operational success. The United States military has struck much than 11,000 targets and destroyed much than 150 Iranian naval vessels, starring to their rocket attacks and drone attacks decreasing by 90%. The violent Iranian authorities continues to beryllium crushed by nan afloat mightiness of nan astir lethal fighting unit successful nan world," White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told Fox News Digital.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio besides downplayed concerns astir Russia’s role, telling reporters Friday: "There is thing Russia is doing for Iran that is successful immoderate measurement impeding aliases affecting our cognition aliases nan effectiveness of it."

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Foreign workers look astatine a gangly plume of achromatic fume ascends pursuing an detonation successful nan Fujairah business area connected March 3, 2026. Iran's strikes connected Gulf neighbours since February 28, pursuing nan US-Israeli attack, forced nan UAE to unopen its airspace, blindsiding travellers who thought they were headed to 1 of nan region's safest vacation destinations.  (Fadel Senna / AFP via Getty Images)

Lt. Gen. Richard Newton (Ret.), a erstwhile U.S. Air Force adjunct vice main of staff, said nan reports should not travel arsenic a surprise.

"The latest reports that Russia provided basal imaging intelligence to nan Iranian authorities to target a U.S. aerial guidelines successful Saudi Arabia should astonishment nary one. Putin is our adversary who can't beryllium trusted."

"We should debar a nonstop conflict pinch Moscow," he added, "but location must beryllium consequences for Russia aiding and abetting nan Iranian authorities that harms American subject unit and our assets.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (not pictured) be a property convention astatine nan Chancellery of nan Prime Minister successful Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 15, 2025. (Aleksandra Szmigiel/Reuters)

Russia has not publically responded to Zelenskyy’s claims. Fox News Digital has reached retired to nan Russian authorities and nan Iranian ngo to nan United Nations for remark and did not person responses successful clip for publication.

Carrie Filipetti, executive head of nan Vandenberg Coalition and a erstwhile elder State Department official, told Fox News Digital nan reports bespeak a broader and increasing threat.

"There is nary clearer awesome that Russia is simply a vulnerable adversary than nan continued reporting that Russia is providing intelligence targeting Americans to a authorities presently engaged successful combat against nan United States," Filipetti said.

"American work members' lives are astatine continued consequence because of Putin's warfare machine," she added, informing that Washington must enactment to "hold nan Russian authorities accountable and forestall early American deaths."

U.S. Army soldiers train astatine al-Asad aerial base. The guidelines is located successful Western Iraq.  (Source: U.S. Army )

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Zelenskyy has besides questioned ongoing discussions astir easing sanctions connected Russia.

"There must beryllium unit connected nan aggressor. And lifting sanctions is surely not pressure," he wrote.