OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 209/2019 issued on 4 September 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer in Luhansk region.
• The SMM saw that the former forward positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and of the armed formations inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area continued to be dismantled.
• It recorded ceasefire violations inside and outside the Zolote disengagement area.
• The Mission saw weapons in violation of withdrawal lines in both government-controlled and non-government-controlled areas.
• The SMM monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate repairs to and the operation of essential civilian infrastructure, including the drilling of water wells near Raivka.
• Restrictions of the Mission’s access continued, including at checkpoints near non-government-controlled Verkhnoshyrokivske and Olenivka.*