OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 235/2019 issued on 4 October 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The Mission saw small-arms fire damage to a functioning school in Zolote-5/Mykhailivka.
• Explosions occurred near the SMM in the Trudivski area of Donetsk city’s Petrovskyi district.
• Small-arms fire was assessed as aimed at an SMM mini-unmanned aerial vehicle near non-government-controlled Horlivka.
• Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area, the SMM continued to observe workers from government-controlled areas working on the pedestrian bypass bridge, constructing a new bus stop and clearing and burning vegetation.
• The Mission observed weapons in violation of withdrawal lines in non-government-controlled areas, including multiple-launch rocket systems.
• The SMM saw mines near Vesela Hora and demining activities near Nyzhnie Lozove.
• The Mission spotted probable trucks near Manych and vehicles near Cheremshyne on a dirt road in the middle of the night, areas beyond government-controlled near the border with the Russian Federation where there are no border crossing facilities.
• The SMM monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate the operation of the Donetsk Filtration Station, and repair works to water pipelines between Zolote-3/Stakhanovets and Popasna.
• Restrictions of the Mission’s access continued, including at a checkpoint in non-government-controlled Petrivske.*
• The SMM monitored a peaceful protest in Lviv related to the latest political developments.