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Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), Based on Information Received As of 19:30, 23 June 2019 Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 21 and 22 June the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Between the evenings of 22 and 23 June, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer in Luhansk region, compared with the previous 24 hours. Two men were injured by shrapnel in Horlivka and Vesele, and a woman was injured and a house damaged by gunfire in Chermalyk. The SMM saw fresh damage from gunfire to a residential house in Pikuzy. Small-arms fire was assessed as aimed at an SMM unmanned aerial vehicle on two occasions near Zolote-5/Mykhailivka and Pervomaisk, including in the vicinity of a patrol. The SMM saw an anti- personnel mine, tailfins from exploded mortar rounds and remnants of exploded grenades between Popasna and Pervomaisk, some for the first time. The Mission facilitated and monitored adherence to the ceasefire to enable repairs to and the operation of critical civilian infrastructure. The SMM continued to follow up on hardship faced by civilians at checkpoints along the contact line. It saw the body of a man who reportedly died of natural causes while queuing at the entry-exit checkpoint north of the Stanytsia Luhanska bridge. The Mission saw people apply for “LPR passports” in Kadiivka to be able to later apply for Russian Federation passports. The SMM monitored the Kyiv Pride 2019 march in Kyiv. Restrictions of the SMM’s access continued in all three disengagement areas. Its freedom of movement was also restricted at checkpoints of the armed formations near Zaichenko, Yuzhna Lomuvatka and Verkhnoshyrokivske. DAILY REPORT Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 23 June 2019 This report is for the media and the general public. Summary • Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 21 and 22 June the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. • Between the evenings of 22 and 23 June, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer in Luhansk region, compared with the previous 24 hours. • Two men were injured by shrapnel in Horlivka and Vesele, and a woman was injured and a house damaged by gunfire in Chermalyk. • The SMM saw fresh damage from gunfire to a residential house in Pikuzy. • Small-arms fire was assessed as aimed at an SMM unmanned aerial vehicle on two occasions near Zolote-5/Mykhailivka and Pervomaisk, including in the vicinity of a patrol. • The SMM saw an anti-personnel mine, tailfins from exploded mortar rounds and remnants of exploded grenades between Popasna and Pervomaisk, some for the first time. • The Mission facilitated and monitored adherence to the ceasefire to enable repairs to and the operation of critical civilian infrastructure. • The SMM continued to follow up on hardship faced by civilians at checkpoints along the contact line. It saw the body of a man who reportedly died of natural causes while queuing at the entry-exit checkpoint north of the Stanytsia Luhanska bridge. • The Mission saw people apply for “LPR passports” in Kadiivka to be able to later apply for Russian Federation passports. • The SMM monitored the Kyiv Pride 2019 march in Kyiv. • Restrictions of the SMM’s access continued in all three disengagement areas. Its freedom of movement was also restricted at checkpoints of the armed formations near Zaichenko, Yuzhna Lomuvatka and Verkhnoshyrokivske.* Ceasefire violations[1] In Donetsk region between the evenings of 21 and 22 June, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations, including fewer explosions (about 30), compared with the previous reporting period (about 380 explosions).The majority of ceasefire violations were recorded in areas north of Komuna (non- government-controlled, 56km north-east of Donetsk) and at south-easterly directions of Chermalyk (government-controlled, 31km north-east of Mariupol). On the evening of 21 June, the SMM camera at the Donetsk Filtration Station (DFS) (15km north of Donetsk) recorded a muzzle flash and a projectile in flight, both at an assessed range of 0.5-1km south and south-south-west. Between the evenings of 22 and 23 June, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations, including more explosions (about 90), compared with the previous 24 hours. The majority of ceasefire violations were recorded in areas south-east and south-south-east of Chermalyk, east of Hnutove (government-controlled, 20km north of Mariupol) and at easterly directions of Svitlodarsk (government-controlled, 57km north-east of Donetsk). During the day on 23 June, positioned in Oleksandrivka (non-government-controlled, 20km south- west of Donetsk), the SMM heard 50 shots of small-arms fire at an assessed distance of 700m north- west. In Luhansk region, between the evenings of 21 and 22 June, the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations, including fewer explosions (about 90), compared with the previous reporting period (165 explosions). The majority of ceasefire violations, including the majority of explosions, were recorded in areas south-east and south-south-east of Popasna (government-controlled, 69km west of Luhansk). Between the evenings of 22 and 23 June, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations, including fewer explosions (about 55), compared with the previous 24 hours. The majority of ceasefire violations and explosions were again recorded in areas south-east and south-south-east of Popasna. Man injured by shrapnel in Horlivka On 6 June at a hospital in Horlivka (non-government-controlled, 39km north-east of Donetsk), a man (33 years old) with a bandage on the back of his left shoulder told the SMM that on the evening of 5 June he had been in front of his house in the Shakhta Gagarina settlement of Horlivka when he heard a whistling sound and felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. Medical staff at the hospital refused to provide the SMM with information on the man’s injury (see SMM Daily Report 7 June 2019). On 19 June, at a different clinic in Horlivka, medical staff told the SMM that the man had been transferred from the aforementioned hospital on 10 June and that he had sustained a shrapnel wound in the area of his left shoulder. Man injured by shrapnel in Vesele On 22 June at a hospital in the Kyivskyi district of Donetsk city, a man (61 years old) with a bandage on his abdomen told the SMM that on 21 June he had been collecting vegetables with his partner in his garden at 7 Naberezhna Street in Vesele (non-government-controlled, 9km north-west of Donetsk) when he heard an explosion about 15-50m away and then felt something warm hitting him in the abdomen. The garden is located about 700m south of the closest positions of the armed formations. Medical staff at the hospital said that the man had been admitted on 21 June with a shrapnel wound to his abdomen. Woman injured and house damaged by gunfire in Chermalyk On 21 June at a hospital in Mariupol (government-controlled, 102km south of Donetsk), a woman (in her fifties) with a bandage on her left collarbone told the SMM that on the evening of 20 June she had been standing near the north-east-facing entrance door of her house at 25 Kalmiuska Street in the south-western part of Chermalyk when she heard a loud noise and immediately felt pain and saw blood streaming down from her left collarbone. At the same hospital, medical staff told the SMM that the woman had been admitted in the early hours of 21 June with a wound to her collarbone. On 22 June at 25 Kalmiuska Street, while accompanied by two Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel, the SMM saw seven holes in four shattered south-east-facing windows of a one-storey house, five holes in the north-east-facing side of a shed 5m south-west of the first house and three holes in an east-facing metal fence 5m from the shed. The SMM assessed the damage as fresh and caused by shrapnel from anti-aircraft gun (ZU-23, 23mm) rounds fired from an easterly direction. A resident of the house (man in his fifties) told the SMM that gunfire had occurred on the evening of 20 June while he was at home with his wife, who had been wounded as a result. For recent observations in this settlement, see SMM Daily Report 22 June 2019. Damage from gunfire to a residential house in Pikuzy On 23 June in Pikuzy (formerly Kominternove, non-government-controlled, 23km north-east of Mariupol), at 50 Akhmatovoi Street, the SMM saw a fresh hole in the south-west-facing side of a one- storey house and observed the metal jacket of a 12.7mm incendiary bullet, a detonated fuse and a steel core penetrator on the ground below the hole. It also observed trees with broken branches and bunches of blown away leaves, 6-8m from the house. The SMM assessed the damage as caused by 12.7mm incendiary bullets. A resident of the house (woman in her sixties) told the SMM that on the night of 22-23 June she had heard loud noises and seen bright flashes from inside the house. Small-arms fire aimed at SMM unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on two occasions, including in the vicinity of a patrol During the day on 23 June, while conducting a mini-UAV flight near Zolote-5/Mykhailivka (non- government-controlled, 58km west of Luhansk), the SMM heard 16 shots of small-arms fire at an assessed range of 0.8-1.5km north-west, assessed as aimed at the UAV, which was flying 1km north- west.
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