Russian intelligence provided Iran with a prioritized list of 55 Israeli energy infrastructure targets structured to enable precision missile strikes against the country’s power grid, according to The Jerusalem Post, which obtained the information from a source close to Ukrainian intelligence.
¹ Exclusive: Russia reportedly gave Iran a target list for Israel’s power grid. A source close to Ukrainian intelligence told The Jerusalem Post that 55 key energy sites were identified for possible strike planning.@AmichaiStein1 has the exclusive. pic.twitter.com/76ljLUPrpn
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The targets are organized into three tiers by strategic importance.
The first covers critical production facilities whose destruction would cripple the national energy system, with the Orot Rabin power station identified as the primary target.
The second includes major urban and industrial energy hubs in central Israel.
The third covers regional substations serving industrial zones and smaller power plants.
Russia assessed that Israel’s grid is uniquely vulnerable because the country does not import electricity from neighboring nations. Damaging even a small number of central nodes, Moscow reportedly told Tehran, could trigger a total and prolonged energy collapse.
Ukrainian officials say the motive behind the transfer goes beyond arming an ally. Moscow, they assess, calculated that drawing Iran into a new Israeli energy crisis would siphon Western attention and materiel from Ukraine, using the Middle East as a pressure valve against Kyiv’s partners.
“They gained big knowledge on the battlefield and this impacting and will have an impact on other regions,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.
Zelensky added that Russia has begun producing Shahed-style drones on Russian soil and said “Russian components” were recovered from a drone downed in a Middle Eastern country, declining to identify the location.
Russia shared their satellite intelligence with Iran about Israel’s energy system – some 50–53 facilities in total. They are helping Iran to launch attacks. We are talking about civilian infrastructure, nothing military in nature.
It resembles the lives of Ukrainians under… pic.twitter.com/4bWSnTyx2P
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) April 5, 2026
Russian Ambassador Anatoly Viktorov rejected the characterization. “Representatives of the Russian political leadership have repeatedly dissented from the ‘accusations’ that our country allegedly provides intelligence data to Iran,” Viktorov said.
Israel struck the South Pars petrochemical complex at Asaluyeh on Monday. Defense Minister Israel Katz said the facility accounts for “50% of the country’s petrochemical production.”
President Donald Trump the same day renewed his threat to destroy Iranian infrastructure, telling reporters “every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o’clock tomorrow night” and “every power plant in Iran will be out of business.”
Iran submitted a 10-clause counter-proposal to ongoing nuclear negotiations that Trump rejected.
These intelligence transfer claims have not been independently verified by SOFX.
