Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, as well as ex-aide to the former president of Ukraine, Paul Manafort, discussed a plan of Donbas autonomy with the region set to be led by Ukraine’s ousted ex-president Viktor Yanukovych.
This is stated in the report on Russian interferance in the US presidential election in 2016, prepared by a special prosecutor and published on the website of the US Department of Justice.
Manafort told Muller about his contacts with Konstantin Kilimnik, who, in his opinion, has no ties to Russian intelligence.
At the same time, the FBI believes that Kilimnik has connections with Russian intelligence. The report says that Kilimnik was born in 1970 in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and obtained a visa to travel to the U.S. with a Russian diplomatic passport in 1997.
“Manafort and Kilimnik discussed a plan to resolve current political problems in Ukraine by creating an autonomous republic in its most industrialized region, Donbas, and electing Yanukovich, the Ukrainian president, deprived of authority in 2014, to led this region,” the report says.
This plan [as Manafort later admitted] was a secret backstage opportunity for Russia to control eastern Ukraine.
As The Journalist reported, Russia interfered in the presidential elections in the United States in 2016.
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