OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 307/2019 issued on 30 December 2019

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 27 and 28 December, the Mission recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• Between the evenings of 28 and 29 December, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer ceasefire violations in Luhansk region, compared with the previous 24 hours.
• The Mission monitored and facilitated on the ground an exchange of detainees between Ukraine and certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• The SMM saw that the bypass bridge inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area had been dismantled.
• The Mission continued monitoring the situation at the disengagement areas near Petrivske and Zolote.
• It monitored and facilitated adherence to localized ceasefires to enable the drilling of water wells near Pankivka as well as repairs to a water intake pipe near Slovianoserbsk, and continued to facilitate the operation of the Donetsk Filtration Station.
• The SMM’s freedom of movement continued to be restricted, including at a checkpoint of the armed formations near Zaichenko.*