Donald Trump at a campaign event in Maine. Sarah Rice/Getty Images

The FBI says there is no definitive connection between Donald Trump and the Russian government, reaching that conclusion after a wide-ranging investigation that stemmed from concerns about the Republican presidential nominee's foreign associations.

In a New York Times report published Monday night, the newspaper cited law-enforcement officials who said, if anything, the cyberattacks that US intelligence agencies suspect Russia of carrying out against Democratic Party organizations were "aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Trump."

Democratic leaders have urged US authorities to look into any potentially illicit connections between Trump and Russia, a call prompted in part by the real-estate businessman's ostensibly pro-Russia bombast.

In its investigation, the FBI also found no conclusive evidence of secret, deliberate communications between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank that was previously outlined by Slate on Monday.

US intelligence officials in early October formally accused the Russian government of hacking Democratic Party organizations in an attempt to disrupt the election.