Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine based on information received until 9 July 2014, 18:00 (Kyiv time)

This update is provided for the media and the public.

The situation in the central-southern part of the Luhansk region and the central part of the Donetsk region remained volatile. Other parts of the country remained calm.

In Kharkiv, the situation remained calm.

The situation in the central-southern part of the Luhansk region and the central part of the Donetsk region remained volatile. The situation in Donetsk city was calm.

The situation in Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson, Odessa, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv was calm.

In Kherson, the SMM noted less water in the North Crimean canal (NCC) than there had been on 8 June, when the SMM last visited the canal.   

In a meeting with the NCC head of administration, in Tavriysk, 80 km east of Kherson, the SMM learnt that the NCC is 400 km long and provides 85% of the water supply (drinking and irrigation) to the Crimean peninsula. The NCC comprises 14 floodgates (13 of them are on the Crimean peninsula) and four major Crimean pumping stations, with the headquarters located in Tavriysk. He also said that with the political change in Crimea, the system had been disrupted, with floodgates and pumping stations no longer operating.

The situation in Kyiv was calm.