OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 245/2019 issued on 16 October 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region.
• Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area, the SMM continued observing workers from government-controlled areas conduct construction work at the broken section of the bridge and members of the armed formations clearing of vegetation.
• Inside the disengagement areas near Zolote and Petrivske, the SMM continued seeing military and military-type presence. It continued observing clearing of vegetation by the Ukrainian Armed Forces inside the Zolote disengagement area.
• The Mission monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate the operation of and repairs to critical civilian infrastructure along the contact line.
• The SMM monitored events related to the Defender of Ukraine Day.
• Restrictions of the Mission’s freedom of movement continued, including at a checkpoint of the armed formations near Verkhnoshyrokivske and at a border crossing point in non-government-controlled Dovzhanske.