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During a flight over the same area five days later, the UAV did not spot the same systems.
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has spotted four distinct electronic warfare systems in Russian-occupied areas in Luhansk region "for the first time."
"In non-government-controlled areas, on July 28, an SMM mini-UAV spotted four distinct electronic warfare systems (a Leer-3 RB-341V, a 1L269 Krasukha-2 and RB-109A Bylina, and an anti-UAV system, Repellent-1) near Chornukhyne (64km south-west of Luhansk), all seen for the first time by the SMM," the OSCE SMM said in an update based on information received as of 19:30 Kyiv time on August 10, 2018.
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"On August 2, during a flight over the same area, the UAV did not spot the same systems," it said.
On August 9, an SMM mini-UAV spotted an armored recovery vehicle (BREM-1) and an APC (BTR-80) near Luhansk city and three ACVs (type undetermined) near Lobacheve.
As UNIAN reported earlier, a long-range UAV of the OSCE SMM on August 7 spotted convoys of Russian trucks entering and exiting eastern Ukraine across the uncontrolled border section without border crossing facilities in the middle of night.