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."
Swedish submarine mystery solved:
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.
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."
Russian wire reports quote a separatist official in Donetsk as saying today's explosion also damaged a oncological hospital, although that information could not immediately be verified. The same official said the building where a meeting of the self-proclaimed government was being held was damaged and that employees of the separatist administration were evacuated to bomb shelters for about an hour.