OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 22/2020 issued on 28 January 2020

Summary

• Compared with the previous 24 hours, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The Mission saw fresh shrapnel damage to a civilian property in Donetsk city’s Petrovskyi district.
• Small-arms fire was assessed as directed at an SMM mini-unmanned aerial vehicle near government-controlled Novoselivka, Donetsk region.
• The Mission continued monitoring the security situation at the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote, and Petrivske.
• The SMM saw weapons in violation of withdrawal lines in non-government-controlled areas.
• The SMM’s freedom of movement continued to be restricted, including at checkpoints of the armed formations near Verkhnoshyrokivske and Novoazovsk, at a border crossing point near non-government-controlled Izvaryne, and for the ninth consecutive time close to the disengagement area near Petrivske.*
• The SMM monitored events on the occasion of International Remembrance Day in Chernivtsi and Kyiv and a protest related to language issues in Kharkiv.