Hacked emails appear to reveal russia is backing Zelensky
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Comedian and actor Volodymyr Zelensky, a political novice, has upended Ukraine’s presidential race over the past several months by promising young voters a break from a past riddled with corruption and leaders beholden to powerful oligarchs. But now, a tranche of hacked emails suggest that Zelensky may have a powerful patron of his own: the kremlin, writes Newsweek.
On Tuesday, Ukraine’s security services revealed that they are investigating whether Zelensky’s campaign received financing from members of the russian security service who are supporting the leadership of the Donetsk People’s Republic, a self-proclaimed, pro-russian separatist proto-state in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.
The claims first surfaced after a Ukrainian hacking group associated with the non-profit Myrotvorets Center released a set of hacked emails showing that a russian security official with links to the DPR’s leadership had attempted to exchange cryptocurrency for cash to send to Zelenskiy’s presidential campaign. In one of the emails, a member of the russian security services notes that they “have approved the budget for the actions of the comedian.”
The emails also appear to show that some of the financing came from kremlin aide Vladislav Surkov and russian billionaire Konstantin Malofeev, both of whom allegedly help dictate the kremlin’s policies towards Ukraine.
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