Reports

The overall security situation remains volatile in the areas of Donetsk and Luhansk. In Kharkiv the SMM monitored a joint pro-Ukrainian rally of the football clubs “Kharkiv Metalist” and “Dnipropetrovsk” of some thousand individuals in Shevchenko Park,…

15 September 2014. Kyiv - UNHCR welcomes that the Verkhovna Rada is working urgently to adopt Ukraine`s first legislation that would regulate rights and freedoms of internally displaced persons. According to Government sources, there are at…

KYIV, 15 September, 2014 – Chief Monitor of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan today urged all sides to allow monitors to carry out their duties and verification of the ceasefire regime…

*SUMMARY On 14 September the SMM monitored the situation and adherence to Minsk Protocol provisions in the areas east of Donetsk city. These areas have not been regularly patrolled by the SMM since the signing of the…

The SMM continued to observe the situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in light of the Minsk Protocol on the non-use of weapons. The SMM received numerous accounts indicating breaches of these arrangements in the…

On 14 September, at about 15:00 hrs, the SMM was on patrol close to the Putilovka market, Kievskyi district, Donetsk city. The market appeared to have been subjected to shelling prior to the SMM’s arrival. Smoke…

SUMMARY On 13 September, between 15:30 and 20:25 (Moscow time), the OSCE Observer Mission (OM) observed a total number of 216 vehicles of the Russian convoy crossing at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP) from Ukraine into…

This report is for media and the general public. The SMM observed a simultaneous release of 68 people in Donetsk; and monitored the non-use of weapons regime established under the Minsk Protocol. In the early hours of 12…

Highlights · A ceasefire was declared on 5 September by all parties to the conflict. Largely, the ceasefire has held, though isolated ceasefire violations have been reported daily. · Humanitarian access to the conflict areas remains severely restricted…

Russian convoy of 220 vehicles entered Ukraine through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point This report is for media and the general public SUMMARY On 12 September 2014 starting at 22:20 (Moscow time) and throughout the night, a Russian convoy…