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OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 74/2020 issued on 28 March 2020
KYIV 28 March 2020
Based on information from the Monitoring Teams as of 19:30 27 March 2020. All times are in Eastern European Time.
Summary
- Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region.
- The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske.
- The SMM saw that the entry-exit checkpoints near Maiorsk, Marinka and Stanytsia Luhanska and several checkpoints of the armed formations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions remained closed.
- The Mission facilitated and monitored adherence to localized ceasefires to enable demining activities near Krasnyi Yar, as well as construction of a power line near Maiorsk.
- The SMM received information that the Donetsk Filtration Station had resumed its operations on 28 March.
- Restrictions of the SMM’s freedom of movement continued, including at a checkpoint of the armed formations south of the Stanytsia Luhanska bridge and another one near Marynivka, close to a border area outside government control.*
