OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 153/2020 issued on 29 June 2020

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 26 and 27 June, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• Compared with the previous 24 hours, between the evenings of 27 and 28 June, the Mission recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The SMM saw shrapnel damage to a functional school in Donetsk city.
• Members of the armed formations continued to deny the Mission passage at checkpoints along official crossing routes in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.*
• The Mission continued monitoring all three disengagement areas: it observed people inside the disengagement areas near Zolote and Petrivske.
• The SMM saw civilians travelling towards government- and non-government-controlled areas through the entry-exit checkpoint (EECP) in Stanytsia Luhanska and saw civilians travelling towards government-controlled areas through the EECP near Novotroitske and the checkpoint of the armed formations near Olenivka.
• The SMM’s freedom of movement continued to be restricted, including close to a border crossing point near non-government-controlled Dovzhanske, Luhansk region.*