Reports

Highlights • Despite significant advocacy by many stakeholders, the draft law on IDPs failed to make it to the parliamentary agenda for consideration on 14 October. In the meantime, the Ministry of Social Policy launched centralized IDP…

This report is for media and the general public. The SMM met with Ukrainian and Russian heads of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination in Debaltseve to discuss implementation of the Minsk Memorandum. The situation in…

The SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions focusing on the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol/Memorandum. The SMM visited a number of border crossing points between Ukraine and…

This report is for media and the general public. Civilians were killed and injured in an artillery attack on a village north-east of Mariupol. Ukrainian soldiers attempting to relieve a surrounded Ukrainian military checkpoint north-west of Luhansk…

SUMMARY Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russian Federation – The Observer Mission (OM) is operating at full capacity. Cross-border traffic flows remained relatively steady at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs) and the total number of border-crossings has increased again. More people…

This report is for media and the general public. SUMMARY A GRAD rocket struck a small village close to Mariupol, causing civilian casualties. DETAIL At 14:23hrs on 14 October, the SMM – in Mariupol (113km south of Donetsk city) –…

On October 14, UNHCR Regional Representative in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine Mr. Oldrich Andrysek and the Head of Zakarpattya Regional State Administration Mr. Vasyl Hubal have signed Memorandum of Cooperation. Within the framework of cooperation the…

This report is for media and the general public. Focusing on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol/Memorandum, the SMM continued monitoring Donetsk and Luhansk areas where sporadic artillery shelling was still reported and observed. The SMM also…

This report is for media and the general public. The SMM observed the situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, focusing on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol/Memorandum. The Mission continued to receive reports, and directly observed,…

This report is for media and the general public. The SMM noted a decrease in violence in a number of areas in Donbas. The lustration issue was debated in Lviv and Odesa. The deputy chief of police in…