Russia's bombshell offer to Trump revealed — it would see US abandon Ukraine

Russia proposed a quid pro quo arrangement to President Donald Trump's envoys that would result in giving up on Ukraine.

The Kremlin offered to stop sharing intelligence information about U.S. military assets with Iran if Washington stopped doing the same with Ukraine against Russian forces, two sources familiar with the negotiations told Politico.

The offer was made by Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev to Trump administration envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner last week during a meeting in Miami, according to the sources, but the U.S. rejected the proposal.

European diplomats expressed alarm that Russia even made the offer, which they saw as an effort to drive a wedge between Europe and the U.S., and they are suspicious that Dmitriev is trying to lure Witkoff into a Ukraine peace agreement that ignores European interests.

Russia has been sharing intelligence with Iran about U.S. military operations in the Middle East since the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation began nearly three weeks ago, but Trump excused those efforts by linking them to Ukraine.

"[Russian President Vladimir Putin] might be helping [Iran] a little bit, yeah, I guess," Trump said last week, "and he probably thinks we're helping Ukraine, right?"

Another person familiar with the talks said Russia has made various other proposals to the U.S. about Iran, including an offer to move Iran's enriched uranium to Russia, but the U.S. has rejected them all.