News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 208/2020 issued on 1 September 2020
Publishing date: 1 September 2020
Summary The SMM recorded one ceasefire violation in Donetsk region (compared with none in the previous 24 hours) and none in Luhansk region (compared with 60 in the previous 24 hours). The SMM continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske. During evening
Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 1 September 2020
Publishing date: 1 September 2020
Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall number of border crossings by persons increased at both BCPs compared to the previous week.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 207/2020 issued on 31 August 2020
Publishing date: 31 August 2020
Summary Between the evenings of 28 and 29 August, the SMM recorded 42 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region (in the previous reporting period, the Mission recorded one ceasefire violation). Between the evenings of 29 and 30 August, the Mission recorded no ceasefire violations in the region.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 206/2020 issued on 29 August 2020
Publishing date: 29 August 2020
Summary The SMM recorded one ceasefire violation in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded three ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska,
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 205/2020 issued on 28 August 2020
Publishing date: 28 August 2020
Summary The SMM recorded three ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, the Mission recorded ten ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. The Mission followed up on reports of a man who died from the explosion of
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Edi Rama offers to facilitate dialogue in Belarus
Publishing date: 28 August 2020
VIENNA, 28 August 2020 – “To move forward will require mutual understanding and co-operation,” said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Prime Minister and Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania, Edi Rama, addressing the OSCE Permanent Council’s special meeting today in Vienna on the situation in Belarus following the Presidential election on 9 August 2020...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 204/2020 issued on 27 August 2020
Publishing date: 27 August 2020
Summary The SMM recorded ten ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, the Mission recorded ten ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and one in Luhansk region. The Mission lost spatial control of one of its mini-unmanned aerial vehicles,