OSCE SMM confirms demining activities near Stanytsia Luhanska

OSCE SMM confirms demining activities near Stanytsia Luhanska

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The OSCE SMM recorded demining activities inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area and further withdrawal of forces and hardware.

The OSCE SMM informed this in a report, based on information received as of 19:30, June 27, 2019.

"In the afternoon of June 27, the SMM observed demining teams composed of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel, representatives of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and members of an international demining organisation conducting demining activities at a distance of up to 15m on both sides of the road that leads from the entry-exit checkpoint to the wooden ramp, "the report says.

At 15:10, a Ukrainian Armed Forces representative to the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC) told the SMM that all planned demining activities had been completed for the day.

The report also notes that on the morning of the same day, the SMM observed that the queuing shelter, inside the disengagement area, about 700m north of the wooden ramp at the broken part of the Stanytsia Luhanska bridge was empty of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel or hardware.

In addition, at 10:10, positioned at the Prince Ihor Monument, the SMM saw a demining team composed of four members of the armed formations depart to an area about 500m west of the monument inside the disengagement area, reportedly to conduct demining activities there.

At 11:15, senior members of the armed formations told the SMM that demining activities in the area inside the disengagement area west of the Prince Ihor Monument were complete for the day. At 12:15, the SMM saw a truck (Ural type), with six armed members of the armed formations and an automatic grenade launcher (AGS-17) on board, drive out of the disengagement area from a westerly direction to a position of the armed formations near the Prince Ihor Monument. In the afternoon, accompanied by senior members of the armed formations, the SMM saw that two positions of the armed formations on top of a hill south and south-west of the bridge were empty of personnel or hardware.

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