President Donald Trump said he will ask Russian President Vladimir Putin whether he's sharing intelligence with Iran.
"Well, we'll find out if that's true," Trump told reporters Monday on Air Force One. "I'll ask Putin about it."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday he will share evidence with the Trump administration showing Putin is assisting Iran in targeting U.S. bases in the Middle East via satellite surveillance.
"Since the beginning of July, we have recorded active Russian satellite surveillance of the Gulf states and U.S. military facilities located there," Zelenskyy said on X.
"These images subsequently appear in Iran. At the same time, there is a clear correlation between Russia's satellite imagery of these sites and Iranian strikes — both before the attacks, in preparation for them, and afterward, to assess the damage inflicted."
If Zelenskyy is right, Trump told reporters, it "hasn't had much impact because we've knocked the hell out of" Iran.
Trump last week said he did not believe the Russian or Chinese governments are providing military or intelligence assistance to Iran, contradicting comments made by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth told the Senate Appropriations Committee last Tuesday that there were "ways in which both of those countries" were "enabling" Tehran "at different levels," and asked how "enabling" differentiates from assisting; Trump dismissed the question.
"Well, I don't know that they're enabling. I mean, I will tell you that [Chinese] President Xi [Jinping] said he will not partake, and President Putin said the same thing … I trust them," Trump said in the Oval Office.
"There could be some things you do, but thus far, at least, [it] has not been major. I don't think they'd want to have me disappointed," Trump added.