OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 42/2020 issued on 20 February 2020

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The SMM observed fresh damage to a house in Holubivske and a probable crater near a school building in Staromykhailivka.
• The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske.
• The Mission saw long queues of civilians at checkpoints along the contact line.
• The SMM facilitated localized ceasefires to enable repairs to and the operation of critical civilian infrastructure on both sides of the contact line in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The SMM’s freedom of movement was restricted again at checkpoints of the armed formations in non-government-controlled Verkhnoshyrokivske, Starolaspa and Staromykhailivka in Donetsk region.*
• In Kyiv, Uzhhorod and Ivano-Frankivsk, the SMM observed gatherings in commemoration of 2015 events in eastern Ukraine.