OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 280/2019 issued on 26 November 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous 24 hours, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Petrivske and Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement areas.
• It also observed demining activities and saw that fortifications had been dismantled inside the Zolote disengagement area.
• The SMM saw anti-tank mines near Novotoshkivske and Donetskyi.
• It monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate repairs to and the operation of essential civilian infrastructure, including to communication equipment in Obozne and water pipelines between Novoluhanske and Kurdiumivka.
• The Mission followed up on reports of vandalism at a monument to a Yiddish author and playwright in Kyiv.
• It monitored public events on the occasion of the beginning of the “16 days of activism against gender-based violence” in Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, and Kyiv.
• Restrictions of the SMM’s freedom of movement continued, including in non-government-controlled Samiilove (Donetsk region).