OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 49/2020 issued on 28 February 2020

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The Mission continued to monitor the disengagement area near Stanytsia Luhanska, saw mines and unexploded ordnance inside the disengagement area near Zolote, and recorded ceasefire violations inside the disengagement area near Petrivske.
• The SMM saw a long queue of civilians between checkpoints waiting to cross the contact line in Donetsk region.
• It facilitated localized ceasefires to enable repairs to a water pipeline near Zaitseve and power lines near Zolote-5/Mykhailivka and Vesela Hora.
• The SMM’s freedom of movement was restricted at a checkpoint of the armed formations near Verkhnoshyrokivske in southern Donetsk region and at a border crossing point near non-government-controlled Dovzhanske in Luhansk region.