News and press releases

The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk, including 209 explosions compared with 63 in the previous reporting period, with most of them concentrated in the Avdiivka-Yasynuvata area. In Luhansk region the SMM recorded ten explosions compared with 29 in the previous reporting period. The Mission monitored two border areas currently not under government control. The SMM encountered restrictions to its freedom of movement, including in the disengagement areas near Petrivske and Zolote, and noted a calm situation in the wider Petrivske area. The SMM continued to monitor the anti-mayor protest in Odessa and observed a blockade at the Uzhhorod border crossing point...

MINSK, 22 September 2016- Martin Sajdik, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) made the following press statement after the meeting of the TCG and its four Working Groups in Minsk on 21 September 2016:

NEW YORK, 22 September 2016- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomed the Framework Decision on Disengagement of Forces and Hardware agreed by the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on 21 September 2016.

MINSK, 21 September 2016 – Ambassador Martin Sajdik, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and to the Trilateral Contact Group, made the following press statement today after a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group:...

BERLIN / KYIV, 14 September 2016- German Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Frank-Walter Steinmeier has embarked on a two-day visit to Ukraine, starting with political talks in Kyiv today. Steinmeier’s meetings with President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman and members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine will take place together with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, thus reflecting the close and continuous political partnership of Germany and France in the framework of the so-called Normandy format...

The SMM recorded a sharp increase of ceasefire violations in Donetsk region on both 10 and 11 September, including 515 and 116 explosions respectively, compared with 36 explosions recorded in the previous period...

BERLIN, 12 September 2016- The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Martin Sajdik, had meetings in Moscow, from 8 to 10 September, with the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, the Aide to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladislav Surkov, as well as with the representatives of the Russian Federation in the TCG, Boris Gryzlov and Azamat Kulmukhametov...