OSCE SMM Spot Report 33/2020: SMM camera near Shyrokyne damaged

At 08:10 on 22 June, the SMM lost the video feed from its daylight camera located 1km south-west of Shyrokyne (government-controlled, 100km south of Donetsk). The camera is generally directed northwards along the contact line.

At 08:15, a Ukrainian Armed Forces officer of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC) told the Mission that the camera had sustained damage.

Between 10:20 and 11:42, during multiple flights, an SMM unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) spotted that the camera was lying on the ground within the camera site perimeter (near its south-eastern corner) and that the upper part of the camera mast was lying outside the site (along its western edge) with an antenna still attached to it. The UAV also spotted that a power cable and a data transmission cable were hanging alongside the portion of the mast which remained standing.

The SMM will continue to follow up on this incident.