OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 54/2020 issued on 5 March 2020

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The SMM saw close to its patrol a probable explosive device on a road near non-government-controlled Zaichenko, Donetsk region.
• It corroborated reports of three cases of civilians injured by shelling in Krasnohorivka and Dokuchaievsk.
• The Mission continued to monitor the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska and Zolote, it recorded ceasefire violations inside the Petrivske disengagement area.
• It saw weapons in violation of withdrawal lines on both sides of the contact line in Luhansk region.
• The SMM saw craters in Luhansk region near Orikhove and Holubivske and in Donetsk region near Staromykhailivka.
• It saw anti-tank mines near Staromykhailivka, Krasnohorivka, Marinka, Pisky and Styla, including some within residential areas.
• The Mission’s freedom of movement continued to be restricted, including at a checkpoint of the armed formations in Staromykhailivka and near a border crossing point close to non-government-controlled Leonove.