A major new study of more than 4,000 leaked Kremlin emails, released on July 16, has illuminated the true extent of Russian hybrid aggression against Ukraine, and highlighted the significant levels of financial and political control that the Kremlin exerts over its proxy forces and puppet administrations in eastern Ukraine.

The study also demonstrates, however, that a new type of “full spectrum” warfare designed in Moscow is reaching far beyond the embattled eastern Donbas region, where Russian-led forces are in their sixth year of waging a war against Ukraine that has killed some 13,000 people.