MOSCOW — A group of Ukrainian hackers has released thousands of e-mails 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.
Ukraine’s National Security Service said Wednesday the e-mails were real, although they added the files may have been tampered with. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed the published e-mails as a sham, saying Wednesday that Surkov doesn’t use e-mail.
Russian journalist Svetlana Babaeva told reporters e-mails from her in the cache were genuine. “I sent those e-mails,” Babaeva said, referring to three e-mails in the …read more
Source: The News