OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 258/2019 issued on 31 October 2019

Based on information from the Monitoring Teams as of 19:30, 30 October 2019. 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 SMM observed further withdrawal of forces and hardware from the Zolote disengagement area.

• Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area, the Mission continued to observe construction works at the broken section of the bridge.

• The Mission recorded ceasefire violations inside the Petrivske disengagement area.

• The SMM observed two weapons in violation of withdrawal lines in government-controlled areas of Donetsk region.

• The Mission saw for the first time unexploded ordnance in non-government-controlled Sakhanka and Roza.

• The SMM monitored adherence to the ceasefire to facilitate the operation of and repairs to critical civilian infrastructure on both sides of the contact line.

• Restrictions of the SMM’s freedom of movement continued.