2/9/2019 Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 8 February 2019 | OSCE
Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 8 February 2019 KYIV 9 February 2019
This report is for the media and the general public.
Summary
Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer cease re violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region. The SMM followed up on reports of a man who died while at a checkpoint in Kreminets. The SMM followed up on reports of damage to a truck transporting coal on behalf of an international organization. It recorded cease re violations inside and near the Zolote disengagement area and a cease re violation inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area. The Mission saw weapons in violation of the withdrawal lines in government- controlled areas in Donetsk region. It facilitated and monitored adherence to the cease re to enable repair works and demining activities to essential civilian infrastructure in Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Restrictions of the SMM’s access continued in all three disengagement areas and in non-government-controlled Verkhnoshyrokivske, Staromykhailivka and Horlivka.* The Mission monitored a public gathering in front of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Kharkiv. It followed up on reports of gra ti on a church in Zaporizhzhia.
Cease re violations[1]
In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded fewer cease re violations, including about 30 explosions, compared with the previous reporting period (about 260 explosions). The majority of cease re violations were recorded at south and south-easterly directions of Chermalyk (government-controlled, 31km north-east of Mariupol) and at easterly directions of Hnutove (government-controlled, 20km north-east of Mariupol).
In Luhansk region, the SMM recorded more cease re violations, including about 480 explosions, compared with the previous reporting period (one explosion). The majority of cease re violations, including 385 explosions, were recorded at northerly and southerly directions of Popasna (government-controlled, 69km west of Luhansk) and in areas close to the disengagement area near Zolote (government-controlled, 60km west of Luhansk) (see the disengagement section below).
Man died while at a checkpoint in Kreminets
https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/411050 1/6 2/9/2019 Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 8 February 2019 | OSCE On 8 February, a doctor told the SMM that in the early afternoon hours of 7 February he had attempted to resuscitate a man (in his seventies) at a checkpoint on highway H-15 near the Kargil plant in Kreminets (non-government-controlled, 16km south-west of Donetsk). Sta at the morgue in Donetsk city told the SMM that the body of a man in his seventies had been brought in from the abovementioned checkpoint on 7 February and stated that the man had died of natural causes.
Reports of a truck transporting coal damaged by gun re in Holubivske
On 7 February, the SMM saw metal fragments assessed as pieces of an anti-tank guided missile (type undetermined) on a local road on the south-eastern outskirts of Holubivske (non-government-controlled, formerly Kirovsk, 51km west of Luhansk). The Mission also saw two unarmed members of the armed formations conducting a search in the grass area adjacent to the road and a burned Ukrainian licence plate lying on the snow next to the same road. It also saw fresh scorch marks on the edge of each side of the road assessed as caused by an anti-tank missile red from a northerly direction. On the same day, a representative of an international organization told the SMM that a truck delivering coal on behalf of the organization had been involved in an incident on the south-eastern outskirts of Holubivske.
Disengagement areas[2]
Between the evenings of 7-8 February, the SMM camera in Zolote recorded an undetermined explosion and 24 projectiles in ight, all at an assessed range of 1-4km east-south-east, south-east and south-south-east (assessed as inside the disengagement area) and nine projectiles in ight at an assessed range of 2-4km east (assessed as outside the disengagement area). In the morning of 8 February, positioned in Pervomaisk (non- government-controlled, 58km west of Luhansk), the SMM heard four undetermined explosions and two shots of heavy-machine-gun re, all 3km north (assessed as inside the disengagement area). Positioned in Zolote 1/Soniachnyi (government-controlled, 60km west of Luhansk), the SMM heard ten explosions assessed as impacts of mortar rounds at an assessed range of 0.7-1.5km north-north-west (assessed as outside the disengagement area) as well as four undetermined explosions and ve bursts of heavy-machine-gun re, all at an assessed range of 1.2-5km west-north-west and north-west (all assessed as outside the disengagement area). Positioned in Zolote 2/Karbonit (government-controlled, 62km west of Luhansk), the SMM heard 18 explosions assessed as outgoing mortar or artillery rounds at an assessed range of 2.5-5km north-north-west (all assessed as outside the disengagement area).
On the same day, the SMM camera at Prince Ihor Monument south-east of the Stanytsia Luhanska bridge (15km north-east of Luhansk) recorded a muzzle ash at an assessed range of 2-3km north (assessed as inside the disengagement area).[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
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An SMM mini-unnamed aerial vehicle (UAV) spotted:
26 tanks (T-64) in a wooden area near Loskutivka (72km west of Luhansk) (for previous observations, see SMM Daily Report 1 February 2019).
8 February
The SMM saw:
a surface-to-air missile system (9K35, Strela-10) heading south on a road in a residential area of Krasnohorivka (24km north of Donetsk).
Beyond withdrawal lines but outside of designated storage sites
Government-controlled areas
8 February:
The SMM saw: