Russian intelligence has provided Iran with a detailed list of 55 critical energy infrastructure targets inside Israel, according to a source close to Ukrainian intelligence cited by The Jerusalem Post, pointing to deepening military and intelligence cooperation between Moscow and Tehran.

The targeted sites are divided into three tiers based on strategic importance. The first category covers critical production facilities whose destruction would cripple Israel’s national energy system, with the Orot Rabin power station named as a primary target. The second tier encompasses major urban and industrial energy hubs concentrated in central Israel. The third covers regional substations and smaller power plants supporting industrial zones.

Russian intelligence reportedly assessed Israel as uniquely vulnerable due to what it characterized as the country’s status as an “energy island.” Unlike most European nations, Israel does not import electricity from neighboring countries, meaning its grid operates in near-total isolation. According to the findings, Russian intelligence told Iran that damaging even a handful of central components could trigger a total and prolonged energy collapse, producing mass blackouts and cascading technical failures that would be difficult to contain.

The report comes amid growing warnings from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about the expanding Russia-Iran axis. In an interview with the Post two weeks ago, Zelensky said battlefield knowledge Russia gained in Ukraine is being exported to the Middle East.

“The Russians also helped them, like the Iranians helped [Russia] at the beginning of the war when they gave them Shaheds,” Zelensky said. “They gained big knowledge on the battlefield and this impacting and will have an impact on other regions.”

Zelensky also alleged that Russia has begun producing Shahed-style drones on its own soil and supplying them to Iran, pointing to Russian components discovered in a drone recently downed in an unspecified Middle Eastern country. “We saw some components; they had Russian details. We know it because Iranians didn’t produce it,” he said.

Ukrainian officials assess that Moscow’s motive is twofold: to strengthen its most significant regional ally and to engineer a fresh crisis in the Middle East that diverts international attention and resources away from the war in Ukraine.

Russia’s ambassador to Israel, Anatoly Viktorov, pushed back on the allegations, saying Russian and Israeli officials have long maintained security contacts and that Russian political leadership has “repeatedly dissented” from accusations that Moscow is supplying intelligence data to Iran.

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