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The report showed evidence of contacts between Trump campaign advisers and people tied to the Kremlin — including a longstanding associate of the Manafort, Konstantin Kilimnik, whom the report identifies as a “Russian intelligence officer.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/politics/senate-intelligence-russian-interference-report.html?referringSource=articleShare
The Senate report for the first time identified Mr. Kilimnik as an intelligence officer. Mr. Mueller’s report had labeled him as someone with ties to Russian intelligence.
Democrats also laid out a potentially explosive detail: that investigators had uncovered information possibly tying Mr. Kilimnik to Russia’s major election interference operations conducted by the intelligence service known as the G.R.U.
“The committee obtained some information suggesting that the Russian intelligence officer, with whom Manafort had a longstanding relationship, may have been connected to the G.R.U.’s hack-and-leak operation targeting the 2016 U.S. election,” Democrats wrote.
“This is what collusion looks like,” Democrats wrote.
