Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine - Half an hour west from Donetsk, the roadblocks change colors-from the red-blue-black of the breakaway "Donetsk People's Republic" to Ukraine's yellow-and-blue. A ragtag rebel force of mercenaries and volunteers gives way to a ragtag army and a national guard of nervous recruits.
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Four members of the Donbass Battalion, a volunteer militia formed to fight Russian-backed separatists in Ukraineu2019s eastern oblasts, patrol a forested area near their base in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on May 14. Militia members say they are Ukrainian patriots.
