OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Deputy Chief Monitor Alexander Hug will visit eastern Ukraine on January 14-18 to assess security levels and open new Forward Patrol Bases.

Alexander Hug "will visit Soledar, Donetsk, Kominternove, Shyrokyne, Dokuchayevsk, Svitlodarsk, Krasnoarmiysk, Luhansk, Stanytsia-Luhanska and meet the SMM teams, inspect camera operations, conduct meetings with Joint Center for Control and Cooperation representatives and other relevant interlocutors," says a report published on the OSCE website.