OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 229/2019 issued on 27 September 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and the same number of ceasefire violations in Luhansk region.
• A man from the Trudivski area of Donetsk city’s Petrovskyi district was injured due to small-arms fire.
• Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area, the SMM saw workers from government-controlled areas working on the foundations of a pedestrian bypass bridge and members of the armed formations burning wood and trash along the southern bank of the Siverskyi Donets river.
• The SMM monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate repairs and the operation of critical civilian infrastructure, including repairs to water pipelines in Kamianka and  between Zolote-3/Stakhanovets and Popasna, to power lines in Novoluhanske,  as well as the drilling of wells near Raivka.
• Restrictions of the Mission’s access continued, including near government-controlled Topolyne and at a checkpoint of the armed formations near the Petrivske disengagement area.