OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 228/2019 issued on 26 September 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and a similar number in Luhansk region.
• The SMM followed up on injuries sustained by a woman due to shelling in Roza.
• Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area, the SMM saw workers from government-controlled areas working on the pedestrian bypass bridge, painting steel cables on both sides of the road north of the bridge, and cutting trees and clearing vegetation.
• The SMM again observed anti-tank mines near the Petrivske disengagement.
• It saw weapons in violation of withdrawal lines on both sides of the contact line.
• 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, water pipelines near Kamianka and Zaitseve and an electricity substation in Betmanove, as well as the drilling of wells near Raivka.
• Restrictions of the Mission’s access continued, including at a non-government-controlled checkpoint near the Petrivske disengagement area and a heavy weapons holding area in government-controlled areas of Donetsk region.