Two people familiar with the negotiations said Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev presented a proposal last week that would link two different intelligence flows: one from Moscow to Tehran and another from Washington to Kyiv. The offer, delivered in a meeting in Miami to Trump administration envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, sought a reciprocal pause in sensitive information sharing.
Under the terms described by those two people, Russia would stop providing Iran with precise coordinates of U.S. military assets in the Middle East. In return, the United States would be expected to cease supplying intelligence about Russia to Ukrainian authorities.
U.S. officials declined the proposal, the two people said. The rejection was reported as the direct response to the terms laid out in the Miami meeting.
European diplomats have reacted to the reported offer with unease. According to the same two people familiar with the talks, those diplomats are concerned that Moscow may be attempting to drive a wedge between the United States and its European partners at a moment the transatlantic relationship is considered particularly consequential.
The meeting in Miami, and the proposal attributed to Kirill Dmitriev, centers on a straightforward exchange of limits on intelligence sharing rather than on any public diplomatic or military agreement. The description available is limited to the details shared by the two people familiar with the negotiations, and no broader pact or acceptance was reported.
The account of the exchange is narrow in scope: it identifies the participants in the Miami meeting, the terms of the proposition, the U.S. decision to reject those terms, and European concern about the political optics and potential diplomatic repercussions. Additional confirmations or further developments tied to the proposal were not reported by the people who described the talks.
Given the limited set of reported facts, the matter remains focused on the reported offer and reactions to it rather than on any implemented changes to intelligence practices or formal agreements among the parties involved.