OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 227/2019 issued on 25 September 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The SMM followed up on a shrapnel injury sustained by a woman in Pikuzy, and on craters and damage due to shelling in Verkhnoshyrokivske.
• Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area, the SMM saw workers from government-controlled areas working on the foundations of a pedestrian bypass bridge as well as workers both from government-controlled and non-government-controlled areas cutting trees and clearing vegetation.
• The SMM observed anti-tank mines near the Petrivske disengagement area for the first time and recorded ceasefire violations near the Zolote disengagement area.
• The Mission saw 13 weapons in violation of withdrawal lines in a non-government-controlled area of Donetsk region.
• The SMM monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate repairs and the operation of critical civilian infrastructure, including repairs to water pipelines between Zolote-3/Stakhanovets and Popasna, a water pipeline near Kamianka and electricity substation in Betmanove, as well as the drilling of wells near Raivka.
• Restrictions of the Mission’s access continued, including at checkpoints near non-government-controlled Petrivske, Zaichenko and Novoazovsk and at heavy weapons holding areas in government-controlled areas of Donetsk region.