The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has recorded "DPR" militants with new shoulder patches.
"On 31 October, at a checkpoint on the northern edge of 'DPR'-controlled Novoazovsk (40km east of Mariupol), the SMM saw a man in dark green digital camouflage clothing with a shoulder patch bearing the image of a black bat on a blue background surrounded by a yellow ring," the OSCE SMM said in an update on November 2 based on information received as of 19:30 local time on November 1, 2017.
It is also reported that "the man had an assault rifle (AK-74), which the SMM assessed as new."
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