"Almost by accident, the Kremilin had managed to forge a very useful relationship with one of the most powerful players in the Brexit campaign"

...Almost.

"The Ambassador was feeling friendless at the time"

"Perhaps it's just because Banks struck it lucky"

...Perhaps.

Oakeshott and Ashcroft describe attempting to contact “current Kremlin and KGB” individuals for information on the then Prime Minister, before being summoned to a five-star hotel in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi to meet a “very high-level source”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/11/profile-isabel-oakeshott-and-the-bad-boys-of-brexit

Oakeshott told Cadwalladr there “just isn’t a conspiracy here”.

“I just feel that you’re kind of chasing unicorns,” she added.

"Emails revealed Leave EU founder Arron Banks had lied about the multiple meetings he had with Russian officials during the Brexit campaign."

- Peter Jukes

https://www.byline.com/column/2/article/2379?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=8b8ed6f96de9cef96fc44904983455c13d3d05fd-1594555682-0-AbG1Ap9kPzrLALC5JVmPCZNbqoc3Cw3jAP0YIf42aVorSS4hvVdz4wH-qHlof9mMOqxBTIGcbsPZ0U-y7iXtTu69vyjyshzKwS995cG9K9Nu662B9ked_COb8WPoe1CYaLV-yq-jX9_8NuiLFdFFu7sEGpt5oUE79YWpY8VkDnwuf34yajghwgEsnKAvq5UvODmva_JPmpFVeeJSNdX5HK2RS99wW21PEuHybDh5OHlF1tyUmIO2LjLvoOzL2zYe15cO1J8aJi4cAsX5o2jdAtkDd8vFyoBbxYuZHnFTg8U2

"Arron Banks’ Leave .EU campaign team met with Russian embassy officials as many as 11 times in the run-up to the EU referendum and in the two months beyond"

- Peter Jukes

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/08/revealed-leaveeu-campaign-met-russian-officials-as-many-as-11-times

Peter Jukes talks #CambridgeAnalytica, Hybrid Warfare, Brexit, Trump, Tax Havens, Russia.

@DialMueller : Episode One - The Golden Lift

Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes sketch out some of the connections between the EU referendum vote, the election of Donald Trump and the interference of Vladimir Putin.

https://dialmformueller.com/listen?category=Season%201%20Ep%201

During UKIP's 2015 annual convention at the Doncaster racecourse several hours north of London, Wigmore, a Farage confidant, met a Russian diplomat named Alexander Udod, who then helped arrange a lunch for the UKIP leaders with the Russian ambassador.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-brexit-farage-russia-trump-campaign-20180628-story.html

Udod was invited to a drinks party hosted by Banks on the night of the shock EU Referendum result in June 2016.

In 2018, Udod was expelled from the UK as a suspected spy after the abortive assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal.

https://bylinetimes.com/2019/11/09/russian-influence-in-britain-what-johnson-doesnt-want-you-to-know/