OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 73/2020 issued on 27 March 2020

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• Small-arms fire was assessed as aimed at an SMM mini-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying over areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Luhansk region.
• The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske. An SMM UAV spotted people wearing camouflage clothing inside and on the edge of the disengagement area near Petrivske.
• The SMM again saw an anti-personnel mine near Molodizhne, in the same area where one had previously been removed.
• The SMM saw that the entry-exit checkpoint (EECP) near Stanytsia Luhanska, as well as two checkpoints of the armed formations, in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions, remained closed with no civilian traffic allowed through.
• The Mission facilitated and monitored adherence to localized ceasefires to enable repairs to water infrastructure in Krasnyi Lyman and the construction of a power line near Maiorsk.
• The SMM saw that the Donetsk Filtration Station remained closed pending security guarantees for workers.
• At the EECPs and their corresponding checkpoints, the SMM continued to face restrictions of its freedom of movement at checkpoints of the armed formations – from non-government- to government-controlled areas near Stanytsia Luhanska and from government- to non-government-controlled areas near Olenivka, Horlivka, and Verkhnoshyrokivske.