OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 66/2020 issued on 19 March 2020

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• Small-arms fire was assessed as aimed at two SMM mini-unmanned aerial vehicles near Starohnativka and Yasynuvata, Donetsk region.
• The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske. It also continued to record ceasefire violations inside the disengagement area near Petrivske.
• The SMM saw weapons in violation of withdrawal lines on both sides of the contact line.
• The Mission continued to observe measures related to the COVID-19 outbreak at checkpoints in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as at the checkpoint near Kalanchak, Kherson region.
• The SMM facilitated and monitored adherence to localized ceasefires to enable demining near Krasnyi Yar and repairs to power lines near Sopyne, Shchastia and Slovianoserbsk.
• Restrictions of the SMM’s freedom of movement continued, including at checkpoints of the armed formations in southern Donetsk region.