“Donbass Devushka” is a prominent social media account implicated in the recent leak of classified documents on the Ukraine war. The pro-Kremlin mouthpiece, which claims to be run by a Russian woman in the occupied city of Luhansk, is in fact run by a pro-Russian former US military officer.
US-born Sarah Bils, 30, admitted in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published last week that she has been overseeing a network of social media accounts called Donbass Devushka, which translates to “Donbas girl”. The former Washington, DC-based noncommissioned Navy officer pretended to be posting from the Ukrainian city of Luhansk. Speaking with a light Russian accent to her hundreds of thousands of followers, Bils expressed her admiration for Vladimir Putin while promoting pro-Russia views on the Ukraine war.
