Dr Jakob Hauter received his PhD from University College London's (UCL) School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) in 2022. Previously, he studied International Relations and Contemporary European Studies in Dresden, Saint Petersburg, Bath, and Siena. He also worked as a Russian and Ukrainian media and current affairs analyst for the United States Mission to the United Kingdom and as a researcher for Forensic Architecture. He is the editor of the collected volume Civil War? Interstate War? Hybrid War? Dimensions and Interpretations of the Donbas Conflict in 2014-2020 (ibidem 2021) and has published papers in the Journal of Strategic Security, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, and Media, War & Conflict.