Russia has full control over the occupied territories in the East-Ukrainian region of the Donbas. The Russian army controls, supplies, and trains the locally-created military formations; the Russian Security Federal Service (FSB) runs the law enforcement by controlling the local police and special services; and Putin’s aide Vladislav Surkov, controls the local leaders and governments, being a Russian handler for T1 and T2, as Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” are codenamed in his leaked emails (the “T” stands for “territory”).
In our previous article Who is who in the Kremlin proxy “Donetsk People’s Republic” we analyzed the local influential groups in the occupied area of Donetsk Oblast.
