OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 249/2019 issued on 21 October 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 18 and 19 October, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations both in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• Between the evenings of 19 and 20 October, the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region, compared with the previous 24 hours.
• The Mission saw damage to civilian properties from gunfire in Zolote-5/Mykhailivka and a crater in Pikuzy.
• Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area, the SMM continued to observe reconstruction of the broken section of the bridge.
• The Mission saw clearing of vegetation as well as military and military-type presence inside the disengagement area near Zolote. It registered ceasefire violations inside both disengagement areas near Zolote and Petrivske.
• The Mission observed weapons in violation of withdrawal lines in government-controlled areas of Donetsk region and in non-government-controlled areas of Luhansk region.
• The SMM saw anti-tank mines near government-controlled Vodiane, unexploded ordnance near non-government-controlled Verkhnoshyrokivske and demining activities on the road between Pervomaisk and Popasna.
• The SMM monitored events related to marking of the European Anti-Trafficking Day.