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Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

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12:24 20.10.2014

12:38 20.10.2014

From our Brussels correspondent, who is in Luxembourg for the EU foreign ministers' meeting.

Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna:

"We will talk about Ukraine and the need not to freeze this conflict -- to constantly keep trying to look for and find positive ideas on how to solve the problems."

Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard:

"I think we are at right level [of sanctions against Russia] for the moment. We all have a big hope that this will be the necessary [level of] pressure, that Russia will deliver now in the negotiations, that we will have safe border [between Russia and Ukraine], that we will be able to have a peace settlement and good [parliamentary] elections [in Ukraine] on 26 October. But I don't think we should relieve [the existing sanctions] or decrease the pressure right now because we still have incidents [in Ukraine's southeast], we still have unacceptable behavior by the Russian Federation so we should be exactly where we are."

12:40 20.10.2014

Also in Luxembourg, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstroem talked about her country's efforts to identify "foreign underwater activity" in the Stockholm archipelago and a possible Russian role in the incident:

"When it comes to this question, then I also believe it is about keeping a cool head. We trust our military, they should do their job. We have to distinguish between actual activities, such as Russian aggression in general, and what so far is a mere speculation. So for the moment, I would like to refer to the [Swedish] armed forces and I trust that they are doing their work."

12:51 20.10.2014

Swedish submarine mystery solved:

12:54 20.10.2014

Rights activist and Stavropol leader of the Soldiers' Mothers Committee Lyudmila Bogatenkova, who has been vocal in her allegations and chronicling of Russian troops killed or wounded in Ukraine, was detained over the weekend.

The report says the 73-year-old Bogatenkova is now home based on a decision by investigators, after having spent two nights in jail.

Here's our report from October 18 on the detention of Bogatenkova.

13:44 20.10.2014

Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet on Swedish efforts to identify "foreign underwater activity" off Stockholm, related to reports of a Russian submarine in distress (denied by Moscow):

"We expect also to get as soon as possible information on what happened, what is going on because, if you put it into a larger picture, then, unfortunately, we have seen that during the last months in the Baltic Sea, well, much more of different kind of activities [have been observed] -- be it military vessels, or be it airspace violations or other incidents. So, I guess, it is absolutely important to get information about what is going on."

"At this stage, I don't think that there is big reason to be concerned [while] we don't know exactly what is going and what is behind it, but, once again, it is clear that during the last months, during the last year, tensions clearly have been increased. We all around the Baltic Sea noticed this."

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