OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 43/2020 issued on 21 February 2020

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The Mission saw fresh damage from shelling to residential buildings and a power substation in non-government-controlled Zolote-5/Mykhailivka and Holubivske.
• The SMM continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske.
• The Mission facilitated localized ceasefires to enable a transfer of reportedly human remains of two Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel from non-government- to government-controlled areas, as well as to enable repairs to critical civilian infrastructure.
• The SMM’s freedom of movement continued to be restricted, including at a checkpoint of the armed formations near Verkhnoshyrokivske.*
• The Mission monitored public gatherings commemorating those who lost their lives during Maidan-related events in 2014.