• Between 24 January and 6 February 2022, the SMM recorded a slight increase in the number of ceasefire violations – 3,323 compared with 3,049 in the previous two-week period.
• The Mission’s freedom of movement was restricted 17 times, including 15 instances in non-governmentcontrolled areas. Members of the armed formations twice denied the SMM passage near Stanytsia Luhanska, Luhansk region.
• SMM unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) experienced signal interference, assessed as caused by probable jamming and jamming on 84 occasions, while flying on both sides of the contact line. On four occasions, SMM UAVs were assessed as targeted by small-arms fire: once in non-government-controlled area and three times while flying between positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and positions of the armed formations. On one occasion, soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces threatened to shoot down an SMM mini-UAV.
• The Mission continued to monitor the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske. It recorded no ceasefire violations inside the area of Stanytsia Luhanska, and 43 outside the area but within 5km of its periphery. It recorded one ceasefire violation inside the disengagement area near Zolote, and 390 outside the area but within 5km of its periphery, marking a significant decrease in ceasefire violations inside and near the area near Zolote between 24 and 30 January. The SMM recorded no ceasefire violations inside the disengagement area near Petrivske, and observed people inside the area between 31 January and 6 February.
• The Mission observed a significant decrease of heavy weapons in violation of withdrawal lines and an increase of such weapons beyond withdrawal lines, especially in training areas in non-governmentcontrolled areas of Luhansk region. Läs rapporten