OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 248/2019 issued on 19 October 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations both in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The Mission saw damage to a functioning school in non-government-controlled Oleksandrivka.
• Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area, the SMM saw workers from government-controlled areas laying gravel and cement at the foundations of and transporting removed parts of the broken section of the bridge.
• The Mission observed military presence inside the disengagement areas near Petrivske and Zolote.
• The SMM saw unexploded ordnance near non-government-controlled Verkhnoshyrokivske and demining activities near government-controlled Hranitne.
• The Mission monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate the operation of and repairs to critical civilian infrastructure along the contact line.
• Restrictions of the Mission’s freedom of movement continued, including at a checkpoint of the armed formations near Verkhnoshyrokivske.