OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 53/2020 issued on 4 March 2020

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The Mission continued to monitor the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote, and Petrivske. It saw de-miners of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine entering the Zolote disengagement area.
• It saw weapons in violation of withdrawal lines on both sides of the contact line.
• The SMM saw mines near Shyrokyne and mine hazard signs near Mykolaivka.
• The SMM facilitated localized ceasefires to enable repairs to power lines near Donetskyi and to enable demining activities near Katerynivka and Krasnyi Yar.
• The Mission’s freedom of movement continued to be restricted, including at checkpoints of the armed formations near Verkhnoshyrokivske and Novoazovsk in southern Donetsk region.