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The Telegraph: Russia dismisses hacked emails showing ties between Kremlin and Ukraine rebels as a sham, because Putin aide ‘doesn’t use email’

By The Telegraph.

Published Oct. 27, 2016 at 11:29 am

Vladimir Putin confers with Vladislav Surkov during a meeting in the Urals city of Kurgan, on Feb. 13, 2012. (AFP)

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Agroup of Ukrainian hackers has released thousands of emails from an account used by a senior Kremlin official that appear to show close financial and political ties between Moscow and separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine.

The cache published by the Ukrainian group CyberHunta reveals contacts between President Vladimir Putin’s adviser Vladislav Surkov and the pro-Russia rebels fighting Ukrainian forces.