Thread by @PaulaChertok

🚨#Russia's hacking for Trump again! >> Russians Hacked Burisma, Ukrainian Gas Company at Center of #Impeachment just as Trump & Republicans were ramping up attacks on Biden nyti.ms/2TmvgfS

#Russia hacks again: "timing and scale of the attacks suggest that the Russians could be searching for potentially embarrassing material on the Bidens — the same kind of information that Mr. Trump wanted from Ukraine when he pressed for an investigation of the Bidens and Burisma"

So Putin's at it again, repeating his cyberattacks on our election & democracy. #Russia's military hackers breached Burisma—whose board Hunter Biden sat on—clearly to boost Trump's disinformation campaign against Joe.

Putin really wants to help his asset. And knows he needs it.

Parallel to the hacking, #Russia's spies in #Ukraine are trying to dig up information to embarrass the Bidens. The spies are trying to "penetrate Burisma and working sources in the Ukrainian govt in search of emails, financial records and legal documents."

Did our media learn??

#Biden campaign on #Russia joining the Trump campaign's hunt for dirt/disinformation: “Donald Trump tried to coerce Ukraine into lying about Joe Biden…because he recognized that he can’t beat the vice president."

“Now we know that Vladimir Putin also sees Joe Biden as a threat"

Also a big deal: #Russia's hackers targeted "Kvartal 95"— President Zelensky's TV production company! Apparently digging for email of the company chief, Ivan Bakanov, Zelensky's new head of #Ukraine’s Security Service.😨

That's a lot of potential blackmail and #disinformation.