Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 12 April 2019 KYIV 13 April 2019 This report is for the media and the general public. Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasere violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The SMM followed up on reports of a woman injured due to shelling in Staromykhailivka on 8 April and the death of a member of State Emergency Services near Maiorsk on 9 April. The Mission saw fresh damage from shelling in Zolote-3/Stakhanovets and fresh impact craters near populated areas in Orlivka. Shots were red close to the Mission near a compound of the armed formations in Smile on 11 April. The SMM recorded a ceasere violation inside the Zolote disengagement area. The Mission saw weapons in violation of withdrawal lines in non- government-controlled areas near Zernove, Michurine, Smile and Starolaspa. The SMM facilitated and monitored adherence to the ceasere to enable repairs to essential civilian infrastructure on both sides of the contact line. It heard ceasere violations while monitoring adherence to the ceasere to enable repairs to a water pipe near Kruta Balka. Restrictions of the SMM’s access continued in all three disengagement areas and elsewhere. The Mission was also denied access at two heavy weapons holding areas in non-government areas of Donetsk region, at a compound near Smile and near Izvaryne close to the border with the Russian Federation.* Ceasere violations[1] In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded fewer ceasere violations, including about 315 explosions, compared with the previous reporting period (about 500 explosions). The majority of ceasere violations, including the majority of explosions, were recorded in areas south and south-west of Avdiivka (government-controlled, 17km north of Donetsk), west and north of the Donetsk Filtration Station (DFS) (15km north of Donetsk), south-east of Chermalyk (government-controlled, 77km south of Donetsk) and south of Pyshchevyk (government-controlled, 25km north-east of Mariupol). In Luhansk region, the SMM recorded fewer ceasere violations, including fewer explosions (23), compared with the previous reporting period (about 260 explosions). The majority of ceasere violations, were recorded in areas north-east, east and south- east of Popasna (government-controlled, 69km west of Luhansk) and south-south-west of Muratove (government-controlled, 51km north-west of Luhansk). Shots red close to the SMM near a compound of the armed formations in Smile p On 11 April, positioned outside of a locked compound of the armed formations in Smile (non-government-controlled, 31km north-west of Luhansk) the SMM saw a tank (T-72) inside the compound. While speaking with a member of the armed formations who told the SMM that it could not access the compound, the SMM heard six shots of small-arms re at a distance of approximately 20m. The Mission left the area. Woman injured due to shelling in Staromykhailivka On 11 April at a traumatology hospital in Donetsk city (non-government-controlled), the Mission saw a woman (in her eighties) lying in bed. She told the Mission that on the morning of 8 April she had been working in the garden of her summer kitchen on Artema Street in Staromykhailivka (non-government-controlled, 15km west of Donetsk) (a settlement located less than 2km from the contact line) when she had heard explosions. She added she had felt something hit her and seen that her right arm was injured as she was running back to the summer kitchen to take cover there. Medical sta at the traumatology hospital told the SMM that the woman had been transferred from a hospital in Staromykhailivka on 8 April with a fractured left leg and shrapnel injuries to the left leg and left arm. Death of a member of State Emergency Services The SMM followed up on the death of a member of the State Emergency Services of Ukraine after the detonation of an explosive device near Maiorsk (government- controlled, 45km north-east of Donetsk) (two other members of the State Emergency Services of Ukraine suered injuries from the same detonation, see SMM Daily Report 10 April 2019). Medical sta at the morgue in Toretsk (formerly Dzerzhynsk, government-controlled, 43km north of Donetsk) told the Mission over the phone that the body of the man (in his thirties) with injuries from a mine explosion had been brought to the morgue on 9 April. Fresh damage from shelling in Zolote-3/Stakhanovets On 12 April at 2 Nyzhno Dachna Street in Zolote-3/Stakhanovets (government- controlled, 61km west of Luhansk), the Mission saw that all window panes on the north- east-, and west-facing walls of an inhabited house were shattered and that shards of glass were scattered on the ground. It observed shrapnel damage to the wooden frames of the windows as well as to the north- and west-facing wall. The SMM saw that ve south- and west-facing windows of a summer kitchen located about 2m north of the house were broken and observed shrapnel damage to its south- and west- facing walls, as well as to the top part of a root cellar that is attached to the kitchen’s east side. West of the house, it observed a shed whose windows and roof were destroyed. The Mission saw at least 15 holes in the ground (5-20cm in diameter), most of them in the area between the house and the summer kitchen. It also observed that branches on the south-eastern side of a tree growing west of the shed were broken and that parts of the bark had been torn o. The SMM assessed all damage as fresh and caused by a mortar round red from a south-south-easterly direction which impacted in the upper branches of the tree. A man and a woman (in their seventies) who introduced themselves as the residents of the property told the SMM that the damage had been caused during shelling on the morning of 11 April when they were at the property. Fresh impact craters in Orlivka The SMM saw ve fresh impact craters in elds near populated areas in Orlivka (government-controlled, 22km north-west of Donetsk). The closest crater was located about 40m from an inhabited house. The Mission assessed that three craters, one of which contained an unexploded projectile, were probably caused by artillery rounds coming from a north-easterly direction; two craters also as probably caused by artillery rounds but the direction of re could not be determined. Disengagement areas[2] On the evening of 11 April, the SMM camera in Zolote (government-controlled, 60km west of Luhansk), recorded a projectile in ight at an assessed range of 2-3km south- east (assessed as inside the disengagement area). During the day on 12 April, positioned in Zolote-5/Mykhailivka (non-government-controlled, 58km west of Luhansk), the SMM heard ten bursts of small-arms re at an assessed range of 1-2km north-north-west (it was unable to assess whether they occurred inside or outside the disengagement area). Positioned about 2km north of Petrivske (non-government-controlled, 41km south of Donetsk), the Mission heard and saw 16 undetermined explosions at an assessed range of 5-7km south-east (assessed as outside the disengagement area).[3] Aerial imagery available to the SMM revealed on 10 April the presence of two new trench extensions (not seen in imagery from 25 March 2019) totalling about 160 meters, about 1.2km south of Petrivske and about 950m east and 1.5km east-north- east, respectively, of the eastern edge of the Petrivske disengagement area. Positioned inside the disengagement area near Stanytsia Luhanska (government- controlled, 16km north-east of Luhansk), the SMM observed a calm situation. 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 Non-government-controlled areas 11 April An SMM long-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) spotted: four self-propelled howitzers (2S1 Gvozdika, 122mm) near Zernove (70km south of Donetsk); nine tanks (probable T-72) near Michurine (61km south of Donetsk), in a zone within which deployment of heavy armament and military equipment is further proscribed according to Point 5 of the Memorandum of 19 September 2014; and eight self-propelled howitzers (2S1) near Starolaspa (51km south of Donetsk). The SMM saw a tank (T-72) inside a compound in Smile (31km north-west of Luhansk). Beyond withdrawal lines but outside of designated storage sites Government-controlled areas 11 April An SMM mini-UAV spotted two tanks (types undetermined), two towed howitzers (D-30 Lyagushka, 122mm) and nine self-propelled howitzers (2S3 Akatsiya, 152mm) near Manhush (25km south-west of Mariupol). Non-government-controlled areas 11 April An SMM long-range UAV spotted ten tanks (T-72) in a training are near Pokrovka (36km east of Donetsk). Weapons permanent storage sites[4] At permanent storage sites in a non-government-controlled area of Donetsk region 12 April The SMM noted that 23 tanks (14 T-72 and nine T-64), nine mortars (2B14 Podnos, 82mm) and 15 anti-tank guns (MT-12 Rapira, 100mm) were missing. Indications of military and military-type presence in the security zone[5] Non-government-controlled areas 9 April Aerial imagery available to the SMM revealed the presence of 11 armoured combat vehicles (ACVs) (types undetermined) in a training area near Svobodne (73km south of Donetsk), in a zone within which deployment of heavy armament and military equipment is proscribed according to Point 5 of the Memorandum of 19 September 2014.