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OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 260/2019 issued on 2 November 2019
KYIV 2 November 2019
Based on information from the Monitoring Teams as of 19:30 1 November 2019. All times are in Eastern European Time.
Summary
- Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
- A boy was injured due to small-arms fire in Zolote-5/Mykhailivka.
- The SMM saw damage to a house in Oleksandrivka.
- The Mission observed further withdrawal of forces and hardware from the Zolote disengagement area.
- Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area, it continued to observe construction works at the broken section of the bridge.
- The SMM observed 12 weapons in violation of withdrawal lines on both sides of the contact line.
- The SMM monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate the operation of critical civilian infrastructure.
- Restrictions of the SMM’s freedom of movement continued, including at checkpoints near non-government-controlled Bezimenne and Boikivske.*
