OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 256/2019 issued on 29 October 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous 24 hours, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region.
• Small-arms fire was assessed as aimed at an SMM mini-unmanned aerial vehicle near non-government-controlled Sentianivka.
• The SMM saw for the first time anti-tank mines near Dokuchaievsk and unexploded ordnance near Molodizhne.
• Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area, the Mission continued to observe construction works to the bridge.
• The Mission observed weapons in violation of their respective withdrawal lines in a government-controlled area of Donetsk region and in non-government-controlled areas of Luhansk region
• The SMM continued to observe long queues of civilians travelling across the contact line in Donetsk region.
• Restrictions of the Mission’s freedom of movement continued, including at checkpoints near non-government-controlled Novoazovsk and Zaichenko.*