OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 212/2019 issued on 7 September 2019

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 Zolote-5/Mykhailivka.
• The Mission spotted unexploded ordnance near Molodizhne for the first time.
• The SMM monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate repairs to and the operation of essential civilian infrastructure, including a phenol sludge reservoir near Zalizne.
• Restrictions of the Mission’s access continued, including at border crossing points near Izvaryne and Sievernyi, at a checkpoint near Petrivske, and on a road near Roza.