OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 31/2020 issued on 7 February 2020

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded a similar number of  ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region.
• It followed up on reports of an injury to a man in non-government-controlled Holubivske due to shelling.
• An SMM patrol heard small-arms fire assessed as aimed at an SMM mini-unmanned aerial vehicle and explosions close to its position in government-controlled Zolote-4/Rodina.
• The Mission continued monitoring the security situation at the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska and Zolote. It again saw mines near the disengagement area near Petrivske.
• The SMM’s freedom of movement continued to be restricted, including at a checkpoint of the armed formations in Donetsk city’s Petrovskyi district.