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Daily Report 209/2019 issued by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine on 4 September 2019

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Based on information from the Monitoring Teams as of 19:30, 3 September 2019. All times are in Eastern European Time.

Summary

  • Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer in Luhansk region.

  • 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 recorded ceasefire violations inside and outside the Zolote disengagement area.

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

  • The SMM monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate repairs to and the operation of essential civilian infrastructure, including the drilling of water wells near Raivka.

  • Restrictions of the Mission’s access continued, including at checkpoints near non-government-controlled Verkhnoshyrokivske and Olenivka.*