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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.”

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