Why does US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth have a Russian email address?

> UPDATE: The information above was fetched from some of the public leak databases going around internet. This particular leak is from 2016, so the account was created before that. The password used was consistent with other similar accounts allegedly linked to Hegseth.

> @realTimaV was able to create a new account with the username phegseth@mail.ru, which indicates that, 1) the account was deleted by the owner or scrapped by the service 2) the data itself is garbage, red herring, and it was added there by someone as a decoy