Here's an item on the alleged Surkov leaks from RFE/RL's news desk:
Kyiv Says Leaked Russian Official's Plans To Destabilize Ukraine 'Authentic'
A Ukrainian official has said leaked e-mails outlining plans to destabilize Ukraine that purportedly came from Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov are authentic.
Yuriy Tandit, an adviser to the chief of Ukraine's SBU security service, told the Kyiv-based Channel 5 television station on October 26 that it is investigating the materials allegedly taken from Surkov's e-mail account and many of them "have been confirmed to be original."
Earlier the Ukrainian hacker group Cyberhunta claimed that it hacked Surkov's e-mail and found materials with plans for the "destabilization of the political situation in Ukraine" with the goal of forcing Kyiv "to hold early parliamentary and presidential elections."
The Kremlin on October 26 said the leak is fake because Surkov "does not use e-mail."
The previous day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Surkov is "a talented man" and "many allegations against him by hackers in Russia and elsewhere are mainly false."
Surkov is Russian President Vladimir Putin's personal adviser on the West-leaning former Soviet countries of Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia.
With reporting by TASS, UNIAN, and Interfax
Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry:
