OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 51/2020 issued on 2 March 2020

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 28 and 29 February, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• Between the evenings of 29 February and 1 March, the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region, compared with the previous 24 hours.
• In Donetsk city, a man was injured when a metal object exploded in his hand.
• In Zolote-5/Mykhailivka (Luhansk region) and Oleksandrivka (Donetsk region), two civilian properties and a school building sustained damage from gunfire.
• The Mission recorded ceasefire violations close to the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska and Zolote, and inside the disengagement area near Petrivske.
• On the afternoon on 29 February, the SMM recorded two explosions at a south-easterly direction of the entry-exit checkpoint near Marinka, following which the checkpoint was reportedly closed until 1 March.
• The SMM’s freedom of movement was restricted at checkpoints in Starolaspa, Verkhnoshyrokivske and Bezimenne, and near Zaichenko and near Markyne, all in southern Donetsk region.