# Russia emails hacked. Russia's fingerprints all over Ukrainian seperatist movement.

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**Created:** [October 28, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-emails-hacked-russias-fingerprints-all-over-ukrainian-seperatist-movement/769951 "2016-10-28T17:59:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-emails-hacked-russias-fingerprints-all-over-ukrainian-seperatist-movement/769951/1 "2016-10-28T17:59:19Z")

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Payback’s a bitch.

> **[Payback? Russia gets hacked, revealing top Putin aide's secrets](https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/payback-russia-gets-hacked-revealing-putin-aide-s-secrets-n673956)**
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> Ukrainian hackers posted emails showing Russia's involvement in the separatist movement that has waged war in Ukraine.

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> A Ukrainian group calling itself Cyber Hunta has released more than a gigabyte of emails and other material from the office of one of Vladimir Putin’s top aides, Vladislav Surkov, that show Russia’s fingerprints all over the separatist movement in Ukraine.
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> While the Kremlin has denied the relationship between Moscow and the separatists, the emails show in great detail how Russia controlled virtually every detail of the separatist effort in the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine, which has torn the country apart and led to a Russian takeover of Crimea.

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**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-emails-hacked-russias-fingerprints-all-over-ukrainian-seperatist-movement/769951/2 "2016-10-28T18:35:35Z")

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I think anyone that denied that in the first place probably will claim this is a cia fabrication or somehow fake.