OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 71/2020 issued on 25 March 2020

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske.
• The SMM saw that the entry-exit checkpoint near Maiorsk and three checkpoints of the armed formations along the contact line in both Donetsk and Luhansk region remained closed.
• The Mission facilitated and monitored adherence to localized ceasefires to enable demining activities near Krasnyi Yar and Vyskryva, as well as repairs to power lines near Maiorsk.
• Restrictions of the SMM’s freedom of movement continued, including at checkpoints of the armed formations near Stanytsia Luhanska, where members of the armed formations denied the SMM passage towards government-controlled areas of Luhansk region.