Konstantin Kilimnik, the alleged Russian intelligence operative who helped run Paul Manafort’s operations in Kyiv for roughly a decade, boasted of the duo’s closeness to RFE/RL in a 2017 interview. “The only guy who Manafort can conceivably talk to in Ukraine is basically me,” he said.
RFE/RL: Manafort worked with Russian-Ukrainian on peace plan before and long after criminal charges
Paul Manafort arrives for a hearing at US District Court in Washington, D.C on July 15, 2018.
