NYT: Russia has been introducing misinformation about Ukraine’s intervention in American elections for several years

For several years, Russia led a misinformation campaign in order to transfer responsibility to Ukraine for interference in the American elections in 2016. According to the sources of The New York Times , this topic was discussed at a briefing with the participation of senators and representatives of the US intelligence.

According to the newspaper, at least since 2017, Russian intelligence transmitted falsified data on the allegedly about the intervention of Kyiv to famous Russians and Ukrainians, and those through intermediaries - oligarchs, businessmen and their partners - shared data with American politicians and journalists who probably did not know about the origin of these information.

Subsequently, this misinformation reached US President Donald Trump, who discussed this topic with Russian President Vladimir Putin and in a conversation with Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky . Due to the conversation with the latter, the Democrats launched the Trump impeachment procedure.

A member of the Senate Intelligence Committee Angus King at a briefing noted that Putin began to publicly put forward theories about Ukrainian intervention in early 2017 in order to give responsibility from Russia. Intelligence believes that the Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska, who had previously collaborated with the ex-head of Trump, Paul Manafort , who claimed that the server of the Democratic National Committee had been hacked, was most likely not Russian, but Ukrainian hackers, but Ukrainian hackers could be involved in misinformation. Deripaska himself denied any role in this scandal.

The briefing was organized after a speech in the Congress of a former expert in Russia and Europe on the US National Security Council Fiona Hill. At the Imperial hearings, Hill called an unreasonable version of Ukrainian intervention in the American presidential election, saying that the Russian intelligence services were thrown. The briefing was also devoted to the development of the Russian tactics of intervention, including the growing abilities to carefully hide such operations. American special services believe that Moscow can double its efforts during the 2020 election campaign.

Recall that the democrats in the Congress believe that Trump took advantage of his position to put pressure on the president of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and threatened to suspend financial assistance to Ukraine if the Kyiv authorities did not begin the investigation against the chief political opponent of Trump Joe Bayden.

November 20, speaking at the forum "Russia calls!" The President of the Russian Federation was pleased that the attention of the United States is now riveted to Ukraine. “Thank God, no one accuses us that we are interfering in the elections in the United States, now Ukraine is accused. Well, let them understand each other, but this factor of domestic political struggle, it negatively affects Russian-American relations. I hope that this will once stop. We are ready for this,” said Putin (quote by RIA News ).