OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 292/2019 issued on 10 December 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous 24 hours, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and a similar number of ceasefire violations in Luhansk region.
• Inside the disengagement area near Stanytsia Luhanska, the Mission saw workers from non-government-controlled areas replacing railings on the metal span of the bridge.
• Inside the disengagement area near Zolote, the SMM saw workers from non-government-controlled areas clearing vegetation near road T-1316.
• The SMM saw that some trenches inside the Petrivske disengagement area had been partially filled.
• The Mission monitored adherence to a localized ceasefire to facilitate the drilling of water wells near non-government-controlled Pankivka in Luhansk region.
• Freedom of movement for the SMM continued to be restricted, including again at a checkpoint of the armed formations near Zaichenko.*
• In Odessa, Kharkiv and Kyiv, the Mission monitored public gatherings critical of the signing of the text of the “Steinmeier formula”.