Security News > 2020 > January > Russia Hacked Ukrainian Gas Firm at Center of Trump Impeachment
Russian spies hacked a Ukrainian energy company at the center of the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump, a cybersecurity firm said Monday.
The GRU figured heavily in the Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, which concluded that Russia hacked the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's campaign to help Trump.
In a July 2019 phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump pushed for Kiev to investigate a debunked Kremlin conspiracy theory that Biden - one of the Democrats most likely to challenge Trump for the White House in November - had tried to quash a graft probe of Burisma to protect his son.
"The Russians appear to be at it again," tweeted Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who led Trump's impeachment investigation for the Democrats.
The report was released with Trump expected to stand trial in the Senate as early as this week on two articles of impeachment - abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.