OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 45/2020 issued on 24 February 2020

Summary

• Between the evenings of 21 and 22 February, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region, compared with the previous reporting period.
• Between the evenings of 22 and 23 February, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions, compared with the previous 24 hours.
• The SMM saw damage from gunfire to residential buildings in non-government-controlled Zolote-5/Mykhailivka, Luhansk region, and Oleksandrivka, Donetsk region.
• It continued monitoring the security situation in the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske.
• The SMM saw weapons in violation of withdrawal lines on both sides of the contact line in Luhansk region.
• It facilitated localized ceasefires to enable repairs to critical civilian infrastructure on both sides of the contact line in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Repairs near Holubivske were interrupted due to the high number of ceasefire violations heard from the area.
• The SMM’s freedom of movement continued to be restricted, including at checkpoints of the armed formations near Verkhnoshyrokivske and Starolaspa, in southern Donetsk region.*