WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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https://twitter.com/vicktop55/status...24628165726209

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https://twitter.com/vicktop55/status...78370713903104

[Rizotto]

SCOTT RITTER: NATO Can't do Anything (with Redacted, 18 minutes)

"What is the military tactic in Ukraine that the media won't explain to us? Don't worry, we've got former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter on the show to explain how Ukraine is on the ropes, no matter what Ukraine or NATO does. "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mmYg2oiDl1Q

[Rizotto]

Apparently, the head of the Wagner military group, Prigozhin, has stated that Ukraine has been hiding 200,000 troops in planning a major offensive against Russian military when the ground dries up. Here's this short clip by Stephen Gardner:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vvTIXKX5uoY

Here's another source:

https://tass.com/politics/1604659

Military operation in Ukraine - April 14, 2023

Taking Artyomovsk not to ensure fast victory over Ukraine — Wagner PMC founder

"Behind Bakhmut follow Seversk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka and Chasov Yar: settlements that comprise the so-called ‘Donbass ring’ and that constitute a fortified region," Yevgeny Prigozhin said
MOSCOW, April 14. /TASS/. Taking the city of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) will not ensure a prompt victory over Ukraine, Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an article, published on his press service’s Telegram channel Friday.

The PMC founder noted that the strategic importance of the city is not too high.

"Behind Bakhmut follow Seversk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka and Chasov Yar: settlements that comprise the so-called ‘Donbass ring’ and that constitute a fortified region," he added.

"On the one hand, Bakhmut is a part of this fortified region, but, on the other hand, taking Bakhmut by itself will ensure neither a prompt victory over Ukraine, nor a clear road to Dnieper, nor even taking of Donbass," Prigozhin said.

He noted that there is constant infighting in Kiev regarding the "need to cling to Bakhmut."

"They try to promote this city as a sacral symbol," the Wagner PMC founder said.

"The Ukrainian Army has gathered enough forces. About 200,000 rather trained fighters that underwent two or three months of training and coordination are ready to perform their duties. The amount of weapons and ammunition is quite enough for these 200,000 people to commence an offensive on various directions," Prigozhin concluded.

[Jamie]

This is a reply to 'Ravenlocke'. Specific posts aren't important.
I just wanted to say to you I love your posts... constantly bringing juicy information from Twitter to us here on PA.

I probably only thank 20% of those posts because they are so constant and overwhelming (just checked more like less than 5%, given the constant flow), but regardless of not ticking the 'Thanks Button' to every one of your posts... I've decided to say outright, I love the work & time you put into this for the rest of us on Project Avalon.
Many, Many thanks.

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Posted by Jambo (here)
This is a reply to 'Ravenlocke'. Specific posts aren't important.
I just wanted to say to you I love your posts... constantly bringing juicy information from Twitter posts to us here on PA.

I probably only thank 20% of those posts because they are so constant and overwhelming (just checked more like less than 5%, given the constant flow of posts), but regardless of not ticking the 'Thanks Button' to every one of your posts... I've decided to say outright, I love the work & time you put into this for the rest of us on Project Avalon.
Many, Many thanks.

Wow, thank you Jambo

I had no idea….Im glad you like my posts, I do spend a lot of time researching, and I get overwhelmed as well a lot of times, because there’s so much information to sift through, and it is all happening at once.
Lol I get in trouble at home too, can’t help it, if it feels important I tend to neglect my personal stuff, more like postpone stuff, because time flies when Im doing this.

So Thank you Jambo and Thank you Everyone!

[Ravenlocke]

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Been hearing rumours of a "Kinzhal" attack on a NATO bunker in the Lviv region for the last month, which reportedly killed 160 NATO officers.

According to military observer and retired Col. Viktor Baranets, this missile strike did occur, and the bodies were simply left in the bunker.

It seems the Russians have developed bunker-busting technology.

https://twitter.com/CheburekiMan/sta...36197337108481

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Baranets: The bodies of NATO officers are buried in a bunker in Ukraine after the Kinzhal strike

The corpses of 160 NATO officers remained buried at great depths in the bunker in Ukraine after the exact hit by the Kinzhal rocket, about this writes military observer Victor Baranets on the pages "Komsomolskaya Pravda".

He says that the bunker was assigned to the western command post of the former Prikarpat military district and was buried underground by 100 meters.

The headquarters was engaged in coordinating the activities of the Armed Forces and developing plans for a counteroffensive operation by NATO officers, representatives of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of Ukraine.

The lamb believes that the decision to hit the bunker with the Kinzhal hypersonic missile was made after confirming the information on the development of a counteroffensive plan. The choice of this particular weapon is explained by its invulnerability to air defense systems and high accuracy - deviation from the target of no more than a meter.

The man claims that more than 200 officers were destroyed by the rocket explosion, only 40 bodies have been removed so far.

On the specified issue On March 9, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation limited itself to publishing a stingy message on its official Telegram channel that, that in response to terrorist acts organized by the Kiev regime on March 2 in the Bryansk region, the Russian army inflicted a massive «retaliation strike». The agency emphasized that the «Khinzal» rocket complex was used.

An indirect confirmation of the above was the publication of the Greek portal Pronews, which says that "Dozens of foreign officers were destroyed upon impact by Kingal hypersonic missiles at the joint Ukrainian-Natovo command and communications center. This has become a "disaster for NATO forces in Ukraine".

https://vkirove.ru/news/2023/04/16/b...kinzhalom.html


https://twitter.com/CheburekiMan/sta...38633967661057

[Tintin]

Patriarch Kirill's Easter 2023 message

[Tintin]

They are scrambling to pit friend against friend in a desperate ploy to gain the upper-hand. But the civilizational giants with which the pipsqueak Eagle is toying with have no more patience for its flighty games. The era of Russian-Chinese dominance starts now, and the Bald Eagle will soon be just a plucked turkey.

- Simplicius The Thinker, April 2023

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It's a close run thing as to what may be most infuriating to look at: Alexander Mercouris' wallpaper, but we can forgive him that as he talks such good sense nearly always. Or John Bolton's revolting moustache which I won't dwell upon. If it should leap off his face and run toward you take pains to capture it and then arrange to exterminate it in a manner of your own choosing.

This, today, from Simplicius The Thinker:

John Bolton Declares Total War on Russia

SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
APR 16

Source: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/...s-total-war-on



John Bolton will go down in the annals of history as an unparalleled devotee of war and endless escalation. It’s often been said that he’s never seen a conflict he didn’t like.

He’s now published a rabble-rousing OpEd in the Wall Street Journal that’s so wantonly incendiary as to deserve its own article response. It is a total declaration of war on Russia, with the openly stated intent to see Russia completely destroyed, balkanized, and absorbed.



Original article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-a...taiwan-da555cf

Un-paywall’d link: https://archive.is/YyDsU

It’s titled ‘A New American Grand Strategy to Counter Russia and China’. But nothing of the strategy is new, though it is decidedly American. The “strategy”, if it can even be called that, is breathtaking in its reckless brazenness.

I’ll summarize the main points. But first, it must be contextualized by calling to notice Bolton’s repeated invocation of NSC 68, which he mentions no less than three times in the relatively brief column. For those that don’t know, NSC 68 is the top secret document issued by Harry Truman in 1950 that effectively began the Cold War.

Sure, the start of the Cold War is typically thought of as even earlier, but this was the document that essentially cemented it with the types of hyper-militarization and massive spending the period was associated with. The document was existential in nature, invoking the end of all ‘civilization’, should the U.S. fail to stop the Soviet Union.

This mien is important to understand in order to truly comprehend the scale of what Bolton is now calling for; it is a cry of desperation of historical proportions. We know Bolton to be a war hawk without equal, but this is beyond the pale even for him.

So, here are the points:

- As mentioned, he invokes NSC 68, and states that the U.S. should immediately enact a new contemporary version of said policy.

- Washington and its allies “should immediately increase defense budgets to Reagan-era levels.” A major military buildup is ‘necessary’, at the expense of social programs and ‘income distribution schemes.’

- He references modern advances like cyber, drone warfare, and hypersonic missiles, stating that the U.S. has fallen behind in critical areas, particularly in the nuclear stockpile.

- He calls for the U.S. to resume underground nuclear weapons testing.

- He calls for the massive expansion of NATO by adding Israel, Japan, Australia, and others, ignoring, of course, the fact that the N.A. of NATO stands for North Atlantic. I suppose they can always change it retroactively to simply ‘Nuclear Armed Terrorist Organization’, as we’ve all known it to be.

- U.S. should “exclude Russia and China” from influence in the Middle East. He deliberately keeps the method by which he intends to carry this out vague, but we can only imagine what those methods might be.

- U.S. should develop a prototypical Asian-NATO which includes U.S., Japan, and South Korea.

- U.S. and European allies should provide Taiwan with much more military aid and also embed Taiwan into aforementioned alliances, presumably like the ‘Asian-NATO’.

- He states directly that “After Ukraine wins the war, we must split the Russia-China axis.” To do this he believes, firstly, that losing the war will “unseat Putin’s regime,” and that Russia’s ‘fragmentation’ east of the Urals is even possible (with the implication that U.S. should obviously push for same).

This region holds ‘incalculable mineral wealth’ (one could picture him salivating into his moustache) and according to him, China must be certainly “eyeing this territory” (projection much?). Russia’s Bering Strait region should be offered to China as enticement.

Bolton: "Significant portions of this region were under Chinese sovereignty until the 1860 Treaty of Peking transferred “outer Manchuria,” including extensive Pacific coast lands, to Moscow. Russia’s uncontrolled dissolution could provide China direct access to the Arctic, including even the Bering Strait, facing Alaska."

In short, the U.S. should push for Russia to lose the war, then be instrumental in completely balkanizing and fracturing Russia, then selling off the pieces to China in a bid to woo them into a new Sino-American partnership a la the Kissinger/Nixon/Sino-Soviet split era.

The utter callousness and total disregard for any norms of international law with which he candidly calls for the complete breakup of Russia is both appalling and shocking to witness. And to think this is a creature who maintains a hefty influence on policy in the Beltway is a frightening notion.

With that said, his ideas are as pedantically fusty and outdated as his appearance, merely rehashing old-hat Kissinger-era memes which would merely provoke a belly-laugh from both Russia and China. Bolton is the prototypical low-IQ MIC apparatchik who apes the ideas of greater men. He is exactly the type of worm that the ancient, civilizational-wisdom-bearing statesmen of Russia and China could do nothing but mock behind his back.

If he thinks enticing China with some Siberian mineral wealth like a cheap drug kingpin giving a sniff will sway President Xi from his deeply-rooted partnership with Putin and Russia, then he must truly have a Bolt-on brain, and not one of natural make. What these one-trick apparatchiks never seem to grok is that China’s memory is as long as the roots of the Ginkgo tree. They have emerged from their ‘Century of Humiliation’ with lessons learned and will never again fall to the whims and wiles of abject, two-bit Western creatures like Dolt-on.

For all his simplicity, his calls for mass global hyper-militarization on the other hand are no less dangerous. His pleas are likely representative of the ‘old guard’ of war hawks’ sentiments, which means these are the types of blind Cold War Redux escalations we can expect to continue on indefinitely.

But the Dolt should really be careful of what he wishes for. With the direction things are headed in his own country, it’s far more likely it will be the U.S. that fractures and is forced to pawn Alaska back to Russia, rather than his juvenile fantasy of glomming off Russia’s Bering Strait territories to China.

With that said, we must take his urgent plea as an admission of the Empire to the seriousness of the current ground-shifting changes the world is undergoing. Bolton himself references the shift of history’s tectonic plates in his opener:

"The U.S. and its allies can’t afford to drift aimlessly as history’s tectonic plates shift."

And the reverent tone with which he recalls both Xi and Putin’s recent remarks as to the ‘momentous’ nature of the world’s ongoing epochal changes, leaves one with the firm conclusion that the Empire, for the first time, is truly, duly worried.

They are scrambling to pit friend against friend in a desperate ploy to gain the upper-hand. But the civilizational giants with which the pipsqueak Eagle is toying with have no more patience for its flighty games. The era of Russian-Chinese dominance starts now, and the Bald Eagle will soon be just a plucked turkey.

[Eva2]

'Russian Duma Report: Thousands of Ukrainians Used as Guinea Pigs for US Bioweapons Research, at Least 20 Died

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...least-20-died/



he Russian Parliament investigation into the activities of US biolaboratories in Ukraine claims that at least 4000 Ukrainians were used as guinea pigs for US bioweapons experiments, of which at least 20 died, reports Edvard Chesnokov in Komsomolskaya Pravda.

“At least 4,000 Ukrainians, mostly military personnel, became experimental guinea pigs as part of American research into dangerous pathogens. In the Kharkiv biolaboratory alone, about 20 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine died during “experiments”, and about 200 were hospitalized, including because the U.S. tested unlicensed pharmaceuticals on them”, Chesnokov writes.

One of the goals was to create viruses by means of “directed evolution” and study how the local inhabitants react to certain pathogens, Chesnokov claims.



“Directed evolution” is a codename for “gain of function” bioweapons research, as Pfizer executive Jordon Trishton Walker revealed on hidden camera to Project Veritas in a video released in January.

“With the assistance of the Kiev regime, the USA created about 50 biolaboratories in Ukraine, where illegal experiments were conducted on the residents of Ukraine”, according to Duma deputy Irina Yarovaya, a member of the biolab investigative committee, who called the bioreaserch program “a new Manhattan Project”

US bioresearch activity began in Ukraine immediately after 1991 with the Nunn-Lugar programme run by the Pentagon’s Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), according to Yarovaya. “The U.S. Embassy in Kiev actually worked as a Pentagon outpost, sending biological samples, including viruses and pathogens, by diplomatic mail both ways, to hide the truth from the rest of the world.” Yarovaya called it “a monstrous abuse of diplomatic channels.”

In 2005, then Senator Barack Obama visited former Soviet biological and chemical facilities in Ukraine, and “established the US Deep State roots in Ukraine to “counter bioweapons”, according to blogger WarClandestine. After 2005, DTRA contractor Black & Veatch built and upgraded 8 biolabs in Ukraine, including a biolab in Odessa for the study of “pathogens that can be used in bioterrorism attacks.”

Yarovaya noted that on the eve of the Maidan 2014, the Ukrainian Parliament Verkhovna Rada was considering banning foreign laboratories in Ukraine. The bill was shelved after the US-sponsored coup, which was backed by current Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, current National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and then-Vice-President Joe Biden., as Nuland stated in a leaked phone call 2014.

After Vice-President Joe Biden became point man for Ukraine for the Obama administration in Spring of 2014, Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners invested at least 500.000 $ in San Francisco-based US bioresearch firm Metabiota, as e-mails on the Hunter Biden laptop show.

Metabiota then received a $23.9 million contract to run biolabs in Ukraine for the Pentagon and the CIA. Metabiota partnered with Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance on the PREDICT program, which was initiated in 2009 to “strengthen global capacity for detection and discovery of viruses with pandemic potential that can move between animals and people” its website states, including “coronaviruses, the family to which SARS and MERS belong.” Critics like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. charge that this “preventative” research is merely a US government cover for banned bioweapons research.

The PREDICT project is part of USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats program and was led by the UC Davis One Health Institute, its website states.

In his book “The Truth about Wuhan”, Former EcoHealth Alliance vice-president Andrew Huff charges that EcoHealth Alliance developed the SARS-CoV2 virus “during my employment (from 2014 to 2016),” as part of the PREDICT program, which Huff worked on. EcoHealth boss Peter Daszak acknowledged working for the CIA, which invested in EcoHealth Alliance and Metabiota via CIA venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, Huff claims.

Huff also saw evidence of “the apparent testing of experimental drugs, therapeutics and vaccines on members of the Ukrainian military and local population”, he writes.

“By 2022, Ukraine planned to deploy a comprehensive biological intelligence system on behalf of the United States”, Russian deputy Irina Yarovaya charges, citing “possible ‘biological aggression’ of the West” as one of the reasons for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The 207-page Russian Duma biolab report will now be sent to the Kremlin for approval, and then will be published for general study.'

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/anon_candanga/st...58537146212353

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1647239963065319425

https://www.rt.com/russia/574793-don...lling-ukraine/

Donbass town comes under deadly Ukrainian shelling – official
Four people, including a child, were killed when the town of Yasinovataya in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) was shelled by Ukrainian forces on Friday, the acting head of the region, Denis Pushilin, has claimed.

“There has been more shelling of residential areas in the republic,” Pushilin wrote on Telegram.

Four civilians lost their lives, including a seven-year-old girl, while at least ten others were injured, he added.

Emergency services were deployed and the wounded were provided with the necessary assistance, the DPR leader added.

Yasinovataya has a population of around 37,000 and is located 25km north of the republic’s capital, Donetsk. The settlement hosts a major railway station.

“During the holidays, the enemy has intensified the shelling… Be careful,” Pushilin warned the public as Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter on Sunday.

Ukraine launched a total of 23 attacks against settlements in the DPR on Friday, during which 108 rounds from both multiple rocket launchers and 155mm artillery were fired, local authorities stated.

In addition to Yasinovataya, Donetsk and the settlements of Gorlovka, Panteleymonovka, Vladimirovka, and Peski were targeted. In Peski, one person was reportedly wounded by the shelling.

The DPR was incorporated into Russia last October together with the People’s Republic of Lugansk and Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions, following referendums in which the local populations voted overwhelmingly in favor of the move.

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Daark_web/status...40079869853696

English subtitles to above video,

https://twitter.com/Ex_Supra_9/statu...50850573955072

https://twitter.com/mgoricanec/statu...05925875015689

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/stat...82402116935680

https://www.wsj.com/articles/social-...crets-a4b5643b

WSJ NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Social-Media Account Overseen by Former Navy Noncommissioned Officer Helped Spread Secrets
An American administrator of the Donbas Girl blogger network uses a pro-Russian persona across online platforms

A social-media account overseen by a former U.S. Navy noncommissioned officer—a prominent online voice supporting Russia’s war on Ukraine—played a key role in the spread of intelligence documents allegedly leaked by Airman First Class Jack Teixeira, reposting files from obscure online chat rooms.

A purported Russian blogger known as Donbass Devushka, which translates as Donbas Girl, is the face of a network of pro-Kremlin social-media, podcasting, merchandise and fundraising accounts. But the person who hosted podcasts as Donbass Devushka and oversees these accounts is a Washington-state-based former U.S. enlisted aviation electronics technician whose real name is Sarah Bils.

Russia first intervened in the Donbas part of eastern Ukraine in 2014, and most of the recent fighting has focused on that area.

Ms. Bils, 37 years old, served at the U.S. naval air station on Whidbey Island until late last year, even as the accounts she had established and supervised glorified the Russian military and the paramilitary Wagner Group. They are among the most widely followed English-language social-media outlets promoting Russia’s views.

In an interview Saturday at her home in Oak Harbor, Wash., Ms. Bils said she is an administrator of the Donbass Devushka persona, and acknowledged raising funds and hosting podcasts under that name. She added, however, that she is one of 15 people “all over the world” involved in running the Donbass Devushka network. Ms. Bils declined to identify these people.

On April 5, the Donbass Devushka Telegram account posted four of the allegedly leaked classified documents to its 65,000 followers, according to a screenshot seen by The Wall Street Journal. That led several large Russian social-media accounts to pick up on the documents, after which the Pentagon launched an investigation. Ms. Bils says another administrator posted the four files.


There is no evidence that Ms. Bils, who had a security clearance during her Navy service, has used that access to steal any classified information herself. “I obviously know the gravity of top-secret classified materials. We didn’t leak them,” she said.

Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, a spokesman for the Pentagon, referred requests for comment on Ms. Bils and her role in reposting classified information to the Justice Department, which declined to comment.

In a statement in response to questions, Gen. Ryder said U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a review of intelligence access, accountability and control procedures within the Pentagon to help prevent future leaks.

The U.S. Navy also declined to comment.


Airman Teixeira’s posts had languished online for months, shared among a small circle of fellow war and computer-game enthusiasts who had joined his invitation-only server on the Discord platform. Even after another member reposted the files to a larger Discord server, they remained unnoticed by the broader public. It was only after the posting of some of the files on Donbass Devushka’s account that they turned into fodder for military enthusiasts and Russia supporters across the internet. Several dozen other classified files have been found in Discord since then, mostly dealing with the war in Ukraine but also containing a variety of secrets about other nations.

Airman Teixeira was arraigned on Friday for unauthorized retention and transmission of classified documents he allegedly took from the U.S. military. Airman Teixeira didn’t enter a plea in his court appearance and a judge ordered him jailed until a detention hearing on Wednesday.

The federal public defender’s office in Boston didn’t respond to a request for comment. Airman Teixeira’s family members couldn’t be reached for comment.

The Donbass Devushka Telegram account that Ms. Bils oversees describes itself as engaging in “Russian–style information warfare.”

Linked accounts using the same name on other platforms also promoted the Russian agenda after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The Donbass Devushka network hawked merchandise featuring Wagner and the Russian military, promising to send proceeds for the “freedom of Donbass” and to help “our men on the front.”


Ms. Bils was promoted to the E-7 rank of chief aviation electronics technician in late 2020, a senior NCO position, according to promotion records posted on the Navy website and photographs of the ceremony on her former installation’s Facebook page. Ms. Bils left the military in November last year with an honorable discharge and with the lower rank of E-5, according to military records. The reason for that significant demotion couldn’t be immediately determined. Ms. Bils said she left the Navy for medical reasons, after suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

“Some very interesting potential intel,” the Donbass Devushka Telegram account posted on April 5, attaching images of four files that Airman Teixeira allegedly stole from the U.S. military. “The authenticity cannot be confirmed but looks to be very damning nato information.” The post remained online for several days.

Ms. Bils said that another administrator had posted these images, and that she was the one who later deleted them. “I don’t even know the authenticity of the documents or what they say. I am not very well versed in reading documents like that,” she said.


In addition to the Telegram account, established a year ago, the Donbass Devushka persona operates popular accounts on Twitter, YouTube, Spotify and other platforms. The Twitter account has been in existence since 2012.

Some of the slides reposted on the Telegram account overseen by Ms. Bils had been altered from the otherwise identical photographs allegedly posted by Airman Teixeira on Discord—changed to inflate Ukrainian losses and play down Russian casualties. A subsequent post on the Donbass Devushka Telegram channel, on April 12, denied that the image had been doctored by the administrators.

“We would never edit content for our viewers,” the post said.

Ms. Bils has recorded podcasts with guests advocating for Russian President Vladimir Putin and opposing U.S. aid to Ukraine, according to a review of the podcast content. As a podcast host, Ms. Bils, originally from New Jersey, spoke with a slight Russian accent and claimed to have been born in Luhansk, in the Russian-controlled Donbas. In an interview, Ms. Bils said she had “some” Russian heritage, without providing details.

Rachel Stevens, a former Navy colleague who worked at the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island with Ms. Bils, said a person in Ms. Bils’s position and rank would have typically held a top-secret clearance because she worked on sensitive avionics. Whidbey Island is the main naval aviation installation in the Pacific Northwest, and is home to all Navy tactical electronic attack squadrons flying the EA-18G Growler, in addition to eight squadrons of P-3 Orion, P-8 Poseidon and EP-3E Aries patrol and reconnaissance aircraft, according to the U.S. Navy website.

No evidence has emerged that anybody associated with Donbass Devushka played a role in Airman Teixeira’s alleged theft and posting of government secrets.

On Saturday, Ms. Bils said she doesn’t have access to classified information anymore.

Ms. Stevens, a photo of whom in a Navy uniform can be seen on the Facebook page of the Whidbey Island facility, said she worked with Ms. Bils in the same room in 2018-2020, before leaving military service. Ms. Stevens said she realized that her former colleague had “started this faux Russian persona online and asking for donations” after Donbass Devushka followed her small Twitter account.

The fact that Donbass Devushka isn’t a Russian from Donbas, as she presented herself online, but an American residing in Washington state, was first disclosed by pro-Ukrainian online open-source intelligence analysts and activists known as NAFO.

One of them, Pekka Kallioniemi, a fellow at the University of Tampere in Finland, posted on Saturday a series of tweets outlining the evidence, including the matching birth date of Ms. Bils in official documents and Donbass Devushka’s online solicitation of birthday donations.

The Donbass Devushka network has become a significant part of the pro-Russian war propaganda campaign, Mr. Kallioniemi said: “They were definitely one of the fastest growing English language, pro-Russian communities.”

Ms. Bils said in the interview that she doesn’t hate Ukraine or Ukrainians, and that she has long been interested in Eastern Europe. She added that it was “hypocritical” for the International Criminal Court to charge Mr. Putin with war crimes.

The Donbass Devushka Telegram account remains active, posting this weekend a video of a bear stretching and describing the governor of a Ukrainian region with the Nazi term “gauleiter,” for a top regional official. Addressing the NAFO campaign, the Donbass Devushka account posted an item referring to herself Saturday on Twitter and Telegram as “a woman who is proud of being Russian and Jewish, and of the country and its people.”

In a post soliciting funds and noting a bitcoin wallet number on another platform, Donbass Devushka describes itself as “a group of dedicated individuals.”

Another post, in September, announced a partnership with Rybar, a Russian open-source intelligence channel on Telegram with more than a million followers. In December, Rybar’s chief editor, former Russian ministry of defense press officer Mikhail Zvinchuk, became one of Mr. Putin’s advisers on mobilization.


A now-deactivated MyShopOnline page, linked in a post on the Donbass Devushka Telegram account, shows merchandise for sale as part of a partnership with Rybar, a Russian open-source intelligence channel on Telegram, in addition to other merchandise.
All the proceeds from the sale of Rybar-branded merchandise will go toward “efforts to help our men on the front,” according to a screenshot of the Donbass Devushka post. The linked page on the website MyShopOnline has since been removed.

Donating to the Russian military, a sanctioned entity in the U.S., is illegal. Asked in an interview whether she sent funds to Russia, Ms. Bils said she used the proceeds to fund the operations of the Donbass Devushka platforms, including buying podcast equipment for another administrator, and sent money to charities in Serbia, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Palestinian territories. She added that she has raised only a “small” amount.

An archived version of the Donbass Devushka page on MyShopOnline shows merchandise praising Mr. Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and items with the “Z” symbol of the Russian invasion. The main image of the “For Fun” section is a redheaded woman in a Russian uniform pointing a finger at a submissive pig.

The Discord group where the classified files were originally leaked was called “Bears versus Pigs,” in line with Russian memes depicting Ukrainians as hapless pigs being slaughtered by the mighty Russian bear.

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[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
A purported Russian blogger known as Donbass Devushka

A shameless smear piece.

See her channel here, which doesn't require a signed-in Telegram account. I read everything she posts every day. She's smart, funny, fierce, loves animals, works very hard, and is highly principled. Kudos to her.

• https://t.me/s/DDGeopolitics

Here's what she has to say about this new campaign against her:

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/55421
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/55423

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