OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 283/2019 issued on 29 November 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• In fields inside the Zolote disengagement area, an SMM mini-unmanned aerial vehicle spotted again anti-tank mines, assessed as belonging to the armed formations.
• Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area, the SMM saw workers from non-government-controlled areas placing and welding new railings on both sides of the metal span of the Stanytsia Luhanska bridge.
• The Mission monitored adherence to a localized ceasefire to facilitate repairs to critical civilian infrastructure, including to water pipelines in Zaitseve, to the phenol sludge reservoir near Zalizne, and to communication equipment in Obozne.
• The SMM saw convoys of trucks with Russian Federation licence plates in non-government-controlled areas.
• The SMM’s freedom of movement continued to be restricted, including at a checkpoint of the armed formations near Zaichenko, in southern Donetsk region.