Dmitri Alperovitch was born in Russia and emigrated to the United States with his family.
That doesn’t invalidate your premise that he dislikes the current Russian government, but he’s not Ukrainian.
Thanks for that note.
Yes, he’s no fan of Putin.
But doing a favor for Hillary - whom everyone believed would be the next POTUS - was likely the bigger motivation. He’d do exactly what he was told to do. Here, it was blame the Russians and hide the fact they had a leaker.
There’s also a report out that the CIA could mimic foreign national hackers (Russia, China, Iran, etc.) to throw forensic computer folks off the trail.
In fact, the finding of Russian alphabet software would make it LESS likely that Russia did the hacking as they’d surely show more expertise than that. It’s like a master thief leaving behind fingerprints. Doesn’t happen.