OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 62/2020 issued on 14 March 2020

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The SMM saw a civilian car in government-controlled Marinka that was damaged from gunfire.
• The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske. It saw the State Emergency Service of Ukraine conducting demining activities near the disengagement area near Petrivske.
• Small-arms fire was assessed as aimed at two SMM mini-unmanned aerial vehicles.
• The Mission saw weapons in violation of withdrawal lines on both sides of the contact line, including at a former airport near non-government-controlled Peremozhne.
• The SMM saw mines, including on and near roads used by civilians, near non-government-controlled Oleksandrivka, Olenivka and Pikuzy, and near government-controlled Vodiane.
• The Mission continued observing measures at entry-exit checkpoints related to COVID-19 outbreak.
• The Mission’s freedom of movement continued to be restricted, including in non-government-controlled Donetsk city, at checkpoints of the armed formations in southern Donetsk region and at a border crossing point near Dovzhanske, Luhansk region.