News and press releases

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 6 and 7 September, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and   more in Luhansk region. Between the evenings of 7 and 8 September, the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. A woman was injured by small-arms fire in Novoluhanske. An explosion occurred near the SMM in Yasynuvata. An SMM mini-UAV spotted houses burned by shelling in

VIENNA, 7 September 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, welcomed today’s release of Ukrainian film director and writer Oleg Sentsov from Crimea, of the correspondent of the Ukrainian National News Agency, Ukrinform, Roman Sushchenko, and of journalist Kirill Vyshinsky, the chief of the RIA Novosti Ukraina office in Kyiv, as a result of the exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine...

BRATISLAVA/VIENNA, 7 September 2019- The OSCE Chair and Minister for Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, Miroslav Lajčák, and OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger welcomed today’s conclusion of an exchange of detainees between the Russian Federation and Ukraine...

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and  more in Luhansk region. Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area the Mission saw the removal of concrete barriers and the widening of the road approaching the bridge. The

VIENNA, 6 September 2019 – A recommitment to the unlimited ceasefire that started on 21 July is a major contributing factor towards the improvement of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, SMM Chief Monitor Yaşar Halit Çevik said yesterday in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna...

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and a similar number of ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. While conducting an impact site assessment in Pikuzy, the Mission heard small-arms fire and saw a bullet impact the