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Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), Based on Information Received As of 19:30, 10 May 2019 Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The Mission saw fresh damage from gunfire to a functioning school in non-government-controlled Zolote-5/Mykhailivka. The SMM recorded ceasefire violations near the Zolote disengagement area. The Mission saw the body of a deceased man at the entry-exit checkpoint in Marinka. The SMM observed weapons in violation of withdrawal lines on both sides of the contact line. The Mission facilitated and monitored adherence to the ceasefire to enable repairs to critical civilian infrastructure as well as to enable demining in Luhansk region. The SMM observed events commemorating Victory Day in Odessa, Kharkiv, Ivano- Frankivsk and Uzhhorod. Restrictions of the Mission’s access continued in all three disengagement areas and elsewhere. The SMM’s freedom of movement was also restricted in non-government-controlled areas at checkpoints near Verkhnoshyrokivske and Shevchenko, as well as at a checkpoint near Siedove, close to the border with the Russian Federation. DAILY REPORT Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 10 May 2019 This report is for the media and the general public. Summary • Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. • The Mission saw fresh damage from gunfire to a functioning school in non-government- controlled Zolote-5/Mykhailivka. • The SMM recorded ceasefire violations near the Zolote disengagement area. • The Mission saw the body of a deceased man at the entry-exit checkpoint in Marinka. • The SMM observed weapons in violation of withdrawal lines on both sides of the contact line. • The Mission facilitated and monitored adherence to the ceasefire to enable repairs to critical civilian infrastructure as well as to enable demining in Luhansk region. • The SMM observed events commemorating Victory Day in Odessa, Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Uzhhorod. • Restrictions of the Mission’s access continued in all three disengagement areas and elsewhere. The SMM’s freedom of movement was also restricted in non-government- controlled areas at checkpoints near Verkhnoshyrokivske and Shevchenko, as well as at a checkpoint near Siedove, close to the border with the Russian Federation.* Ceasefire violations[1] In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations, including, however, fewer explosions (about 120), compared with the previous reporting period (about 450 explosions). The majority of ceasefire violations were recorded in areas north-east and south of Pyshchevyk (government- controlled, 25km north-east of Mariupol). In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded more ceasefire violations, including about 725 explosions, compared with the previous reporting period (about 30 explosions). About 90 per cent of them, including about 630 explosions of outgoing artillery and mortar rounds as well as impacts of artillery rounds, were recorded in areas east, south and south-west of Popasna (government-controlled, 69km west of Luhansk) and areas west and west-south-west of Kadiivka (formerly Stakhanov, non- government-controlled, 50km west of Luhansk). Fresh damage from gunfire to a functioning school in Zolote-5/Mykhailivka On 8 May, at 4 Myru Street, on the south-eastern edge of Zolote-5/Mykhailivka (non-government- controlled, 58km west of Luhansk), the SMM observed damage to a functioning school building. It saw two partially shattered first-floor windows in two of the building’s north-north-east-facing walls, one of which also had a hole in the remaining glass; one first-floor north-north-east-facing window with a hole in the glass; two first-floor west-north-west-facing windows with holes in the glass; and a second-floor west-north-west-facing window with a hole in the glass as well as a hole in the wall plaster inside of the window pane. All of the damage was assessed as fresh and caused by shrapnel or small-arms fire. A school representative (woman in her forties) told the Mission that the damage had been discovered on the morning of 8 May and that no one had been present at the school at the time. The same school has sustained damage nine times since December 2018 (for previous observations, see SMM Daily Report of 17 April 2019). Fresh crater in Troitske On 9 May, the SMM saw a crater on the south-eastern side of Lermontova Street in Troitske, about 160m south-east of a recently damaged school building on Kvitkova Street (see SMM Daily Report 10 May 2019). The Mission assessed the crater as recent and probably caused by an 82mm round fired from a south-easterly direction. The director of the school and a resident of Troitske (a woman in her fifties) separately told the SMM that there had been shelling in the area on the morning of 6 May. The director added that there had been classes at the school at the time when shelling had occurred. Man died at the entry-exit checkpoint in Marinka On 10 May at the entry-exit checkpoint in Marinka (government-controlled, 23km south-west of Donetsk), the SMM saw the body of a deceased man covered with a blanket. Earlier that day, at the same place the Mission had seen paramedics attending to a man (in his sixties) lying on the ground. An officer of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service told the SMM that the man had fallen unconscious soon after he had stepped of out the car in which he and his wife had been travelling to non-government-controlled areas. Disengagement areas[2] On the evening of 9 May, the SMM camera in Zolote (government-controlled, 60km west of Luhansk) recorded six undetermined explosions at an assessed range of 4-6km south, two undetermined explosions at an assessed range of 1-2km east-south-east, an undetermined explosion at an assessed range of 2-4km east and two undetermined explosions at an assessed range of 2-4km east-north-east (all assessed as outside the disengagement area). Positioned inside the disengagement area near Stanytsia Luhanska (government-controlled, 16km north-east of Luhansk) and close to the disengagement area near Petrivske (non-government- controlled, 41km south of Donetsk), the Mission observed a calm situation.[3] Withdrawal of weapons The SMM continued to monitor the withdrawal of weapons in implementation of the Memorandum and the Package of Measures and its Addendum. In violation of withdrawal lines Government-controlled areas 8 May An SMM mini unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) spotted eight multiple launch rocket systems (BM-21 Grad, 122mm) near Nykanorivka (86km north of Donetsk). 10 May The SMM saw four towed howitzers (2A65 Msta-B, 152 mm) near Lysychansk (75km north-west of Luhansk). Non-government-controlled areas 10 May The SMM saw: • four tanks (T-72) on flatbed trailers heading west in Luhansk city and • two self-propelled howitzers (2S1 Gvozdika, 122mm) near Bile (22km west of Luhansk). Beyond withdrawal lines but outside of designated storage sites Non-government-controlled areas 10 May The SMM saw four tanks (T-72) south of Ternove (57km east of Donetsk). Weapons that the SMM could not verify as withdrawn[4] At heavy weapons holding areas in government-controlled areas in Luhansk region 10 May The SMM noted that: • eight towed howitzers (2A65, Msta-B, 152 mm) and 13 self-propelled howitzers (2S1) were present and • 69 towed howitzers (2A65) continued to be missing. Weapons storage sites At a permanent storage site in government-controlled areas of Luhansk region 10 May The SMM noted that 24 tanks (T-64) and six mortars (M120-15 Molot, 120mm) remained missing. At a permanent storage site in non-government-controlled areas of Luhansk region 10 May The SMM noted that eight tanks (T-72), four towed howitzers (D-30 Lyagushka, 122mm) and five mortars (2B14 Podnos, 82mm) remained missing. At a heavy weapons permanent storage site in non-government-controlled areas of Luhansk region On 10 May, the SMM noted that all weapons previously observed at the site were present. Indications of military and military-type presence in the security zone[5] Government-controlled areas 9 May The SMM saw: • five infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) (three BMP-1 and two BMP variants), an armoured recovery vehicle (BREM-2) and an armoured personnel carrier (APC) (MT-LB S) in Popasna; • an IFV (BMP variant) in Novozvanivka (70km west of Luhansk); and • an IFV (BMP variant) in Troitske (69km west of Luhansk). 10 May The SMM saw four trucks assessed as electronic warfare systems (R-330U or R-330T) south-west of Pyshchevyk. Non-government-controlled areas 8 May An SMM mid-range UAV spotted an IFV (probable BMP) near Sentianivka (formerly Frunze, 44km west of Luhansk). An SMM mini-UAV spotted for the first time three trenches, each 3m long, (not seen in imagery from 5 March 2019) west of road M03 about 4km north-west of Debaltseve (non-government-controlled, 58km north-east of Donetsk). 9 May An SMM mini-UAV spotted a concrete bunker under construction in a field about 4.5km south of Slovianoserbsk (28km north-west of Luhansk) and a recently improved trench system (about 100m long) about 1km east of the bunker. The UAV also spotted five recently dug 5m-long trenches in a field about 1.5km north-east of Novohryhorivka (33km west of Luhansk). 10 May The SMM saw an APC (MT-LB) in Nova Marivka (64km south of Donetsk). UAV seen flying in the security zone The SMM saw an unidentified UAV (assessed as a fixed-wing type) flying in a north-westerly direction at an altitude of about 200-300m about 2km south of Zaichenko (non-government-controlled, 26km north-east of Mariupol).
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