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OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 45/2022 issued on 26 February 2022
KYIV 26 February 2022
Based on information from the Monitoring Teams as of 17:00 25 February 2022. All times are in Eastern European Time.
- From the evening of 24 February, the Mission has continued to hear multiple explosions, including from multiple launch rocket systems and heavy artillery fire in and near the cities of Kherson, Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Kyiv. In downtown Kyiv, it also heard small-arms fire near its headquarters.
- The SMM switched off its camera systems on the morning of 26 February. On the night of 25-26 February, the cameras recorded in total 109 undetermined explosions along the contact line in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
- The Mission continued evacuation activities as per the instruction of 24 February to evacuate all International Mission members.