OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 230/2019 issued on 28 September 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area, the SMM saw a temporary pedestrian bypass bridge being connected with the broken section of the Stanytsia Luhanska bridge. The SMM also saw workers from non-government-controlled areas cutting trees about 100m south-west along the southern bank of the Siverskyi Donets river.
• The SMM observed military and military-type presence inside the Petrivske disengagement area, as well as Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel inside the Zolote disengagement area.
• The SMM observed seven weapons in violation of their respective withdrawal lines in government-controlled areas of Donetsk region.
• The SMM monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate repairs and the operation of critical civilian infrastructure, including repairs to water pipelines between Zolote-3/Stakhanovets and Popasna, to power lines in Novoluhanske and Kruta Balka, as well as the drilling of wells near Raivka.
• Restrictions of the Mission’s access continued, including at a checkpoint of the armed formations near the Petrivske disengagement area, Verkhnoshyrokivske and Novolaspa.