OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 259/2019 issued on 1 November 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. It recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region.
• The SMM saw a crater in the yard of a residential house in Zolote-5/Mykhailivka.
• The SMM observed further withdrawal of forces and hardware from the Zolote disengagement area.
• Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area, the Mission continued to observe construction works at the broken section of the bridge.
• The Mission recorded no violations inside all three disengagement areas.
• The SMM observed two weapons in violation of withdrawal lines in government-controlled and non-government-controlled areas of Donetsk region.
• The Mission observed two convoys consisting of trucks with Russian Federation licence plates in non-government-controlled of Donetsk city and Luhansk city.
• The SMM continued to observe long queues of civilians travelling across the contact line in Donetsk region.
• The SMM monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate the operation of and repairs to critical civilian infrastructure on both sides of the contact line.
• Restrictions of the SMM’s freedom of movement continued, including at checkpoints near non-government-controlled Zaichenko and Novoazovsk.*