OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 306/2019 issued on 28 December 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous 24 hours, the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The SMM saw a tailfin from a mortar in the Zolote disengagement area and remnants of a rocket-propelled grenade in the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area.
• It saw a self-propelled howitzer in violation of withdrawal lines near government-controlled Novobakhmutivka.
• The Mission saw long queues of civilians at checkpoints along the contact line.
• It monitored and facilitated adherence to localized ceasefires to facilitate the drilling of water wells near Pankivka, repairs to a water intake near Krasnyi Lyman and to a water pipeline near Zaitseve, and continued to facilitate the operation of the Donetsk Filtration Station.
• The SMM’s freedom of movement continued to be restricted, including at a border crossing point near non-government-controlled Izvaryne and at checkpoints of the armed formations near Verkhnoshyrokivske and Starolaspa.