UPDATED: Artikel Magazine, a German publication, has noticed a peculiar vehicle which is reportedly in eastern Ukraine right now:



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This vehicle does indeed looks like the 1RL232, a battlefield surveillance radar system designed to improve artillery fire. We were not initially able to find the original source of this picture. However, now it appears that this was taken by a journalist. Below is a picture of an 1RL232:

In Christopher Miller's newest report on this crisis, he quotes The Interpreter and he also has more quotes from NATO Commander General Philip Breedlove. More importantly, however, his story has this picture which was taken today in Torez, east of Donetsk, by AFP/Getty Images' Mehahem Kahana:

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Another vehicle.



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A reverse image search brings us to a VKontakte page of a supporter of the Russian-backed separatists who uses the screen name "anti_maydan." The vehicle in question does indeed resemble the 1RL239 "Lynx" also used to assist with the targeting of artillery (the picture below is from Wikipedia): UPDATE: These pictures were initially taken by journalist Stefan Huijboom (obviously someone uploaded them to VK after he took them), who says the vehicles were headed east, away from Donetsk:





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