News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 297/2019 issued on 16 December 2019
Publishing date: 16 December 2019
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 13 and 14 December, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region. Between the evenings of 14 and 15 December, the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 296/2019 issued on 14 December 2019
Publishing date: 14 December 2019
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. It recorded an explosion in Luhansk region. The Mission continued to monitor the situation in the disengagement areas near Petrivske, Zolote and Stanytsia Luhanska. It saw a tank in
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 295/2019 issued on 13 December 2019
Publishing date: 13 December 2019
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. The Mission continued monitoring the situation in the disengagement areas near Petrivske, Zolote and Stanytsia Luhanska. The SMM monitored adherence to a
OSCE Media Freedom Representative expresses hope that all who perpetrated and ordered the murder of Pavlo Sheremet in Ukraine are brought to justice
Publishing date: 13 December 2019
VIENNA, 13 December 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, expressed his hope that the perpetrators of, and masterminds behind, the murder of the journalist Pavlo Sheremet will soon be identified and brought to justice, after the Ukrainian authorities declared five persons to be suspects...
A full and comprehensive ceasefire crucial for success and implementation of security measures, says OSCE SMM Chief Monitor to OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 13 December 2019
VIENNA, 13 December 2019- The commitment undertaken at the Normandy Four Summit in Paris to achieve a full and comprehensive implementation of the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by the end of 2019 is encouraging, said OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Chief Monitor, Yaşar Halit Çevik, in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council yesterday in Vienna...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 294/2019 issued on 12 December 2019
Publishing date: 12 December 2019
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region. The SMM continued monitoring the situation in the disengagement areas near Petrivske, Zolote and Stanytsia Luhanska. It recorded ceasefire violations near
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 293/2019 issued on 11 December 2019
Publishing date: 11 December 2019
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer in Luhansk region. The Mission recorded ceasefire violations inside the disengagement area near Petrivske. The SMM continued monitoring the situation in the disengagement