OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 269/2019 issued on 13 November 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region.
• The SMM continued to observe the disengagement process at the Petrivske disengagement area.
• The SMM continued to observe demining activities inside the Zolote disengagement area.
• Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area, the Mission continued to observe construction works at the broken section of the bridge.
• The SMM observed weapons in violation of withdrawal lines in non-government-controlled Donetsk city.
• The Mission monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate the removal of unexploded ordnance from a road near non-government-controlled Molodizhne.
• The Mission continued to facilitate the operation of and repairs to critical civilian infrastructure on both sides of the contact line; it heard and saw an explosion 300m away while facilitating repair works at the Phenol Sludge Reservoir near Zalizne.
• Restrictions of the SMM’s freedom of movement continued, including at checkpoints near non-government-controlled Zaichenko, Bezimenne and Nova Marivka.*