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Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00hrs, 5 August 2014
Publishing date: 6 August 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM accompanied investigators who accessed the crash site of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17. Ukrainian soldiers/border guards crossed into the Russian Federation after coming under attack from militants and having run out of supplies, and later, having returned to Ukraine through a different border crossing point, allegedly came under fire in the Donetsk region. There have been protests in several locations against alleged police brutality.
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 19:30 (Kyiv time), 17 July 2015
Publishing date: 18 July 2015
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of Measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements.” Its monitoring was restricted by third parties and security considerations*. The SMM observed that the number of ceasefire violations at and around Donetsk airport decreased. In Shyrokyne no ceasefire violations were observed. The repair at the water pipeline north-west of Horlivka was suspended due to ceasefire violations. The SMM in Kyiv as well as on the crash site in Hrabove observed a minute of silence in honour of the victims of the downing of Malaysian Airline Flight MH17.
Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine based on information received until 18 July 18:00 (Kyiv time)
Publishing date: 19 July 2014
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM obtained very limited access to the crash site of Malaysia Airlines MH17, which came down on 17 July near Hrabove (79 km east of Donetsk). There were dead bodies at the scene, marked, but exposed to the elements. No process of debris collection was observed. Some of the ’Donetsk People’s Republic’s‘ guards were visibly intoxicated and aggressive.