Daily Report 208/2019 issued by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine on 3 September 2019

Based on information from the Monitoring Teams as of 19:30, 2 September 2019. All times are in Eastern European Time.

Summary

• Compared with the previous 24 hours, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

• The Mission observed multiple craters and projectiles in flight in Pikuzy.

• The SMM saw that the former forward positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and of the armed formations inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area continued to be dismantled.

• It observed military hardware inside the Petrivske disengagement area and recorded ceasefire violations outside the Zolote disengagement area.

• The Mission saw weapons in violation of withdrawal lines in government-controlled areas.

• The SMM monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate repairs to and the operation of essential civilian infrastructure, including a water pipeline between Zolote-3/Stakhanovets and Popasna and power lines near Artema.

• Restrictions of the Mission’s access continued, including at checkpoints near non-government-controlled Nova Marivka, Zaichenko, Veselohorivka, Voznesenivka and Verkhnoshyrokivske as well as near government-controlled Nevelske and Bohdanivka.