Taken together they support the notion that Russia controls the separatist authorities in eastern Ukraine, who have been fighting a war with Kiev since the spring of 2014. [...]
There is an alleged plan for Moscow to provide fuel to the separatist-held regions to deal with shortages.
And there is a list of separatist politicians, which was apparently sent to Mr Surkov's office. The implication is that Russia has a say in who governs separatist-held eastern Ukraine.
Attached to one an email, allegedly sent by the separatist leader Denis Pushilin in January of this year, is a map of Ukraine carved up into three regions. The eastern part is marked as "Novorossiya" (New Russia). The central region is labelled "Malorossiya" (Lesser Russia). [...]
In the words of Eliot Higgins, a British journalist and founder of the website Bellingcat, there is "nothing in there which is individually hugely dramatic". He characterises much of the information leaked so far as "day-to-day boring business".
However, Mr Higgins believes that, taken as a whole, the emails are significant.
"We haven't seen a hack of this type before, showing so much direct linkage between the Kremlin and separatists on the ground."
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