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A priest stands in front of a hospital destroyed after shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern city of Donetsk, Ukraine, on January 19.
A priest stands in front of a hospital destroyed after shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern city of Donetsk, Ukraine, on January 19.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

Final Summary For January 20

-- A military spokesman says Ukrainian soldiers on January 20 came under attack from Russian regular forces in the north of the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine.

-- Germany's foreign minister says he and his counterparts from Ukraine, Russia, and France will meet on January 21 in Berlin in a bid to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine.

-- The chief of Russian gas giant Gazprom says Ukraine's discount "winter price" for natural gas will end on April 1. Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller said in a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev that the price for Kyiv would be set in accordance with a long-standing contract, one Kyiv has long sought to change.

-- Russia says a European Union decision to keep sanctions against Russia in place shows the EU is not ready to change an "unfriendly course" toward Moscow. The EU's decision "only confirms the fact that the EU is still not ready to alter its unfriendly course or to give an objective assessment of the Kyiv authorities' actions," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

-- A Georgian man fighting on the Ukrainian side in the conflict in Ukraine has been killed in combat near the Donetsk airport, according to relatives. Media reports in Georgia quote members of Tamaz Sukhiashvili's family as saying he was killed in a battle near the bitterly contested airport on January 17.

-- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has expressed deep concern over what it says is the "escalation" of violence between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine over the past two weeks. In a statement, the ICRC said the fighting in and around the city of Donetsk was killing civilians and "preventing" its team from carrying out its humanitarian work.

-- An explosion near a courthouse in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has wounded 14 people, four of them seriously.

-- Russia says Kyiv is trying to solve the crisis in eastern Ukraine through military force and that could lead to "irreversible consequences for Ukrainian statehood." Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin spoke to Interfax news agency as Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of ignoring appeals for a cease-fire to be respected.

*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv

12:47 9.12.2014

12:55 9.12.2014

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaking at a joint news conference with Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders in Moscow today. via Reuters:

"We hope that the coordinated line of contact will actually enable the so-called regime of silence and the beginning of the withdrawal of heavy armaments on both sides of the line."

"We have hopes for the cease-fire announced today. It is not the first such announcement, but this current step was very well prepared. There were talks between representatives of the sides of the conflict, and Russian officers were helping with it under a request from [Ukrainian] President [Petro] Poroshenko."

13:07 9.12.2014

I believe this was part of the leaked coalition agreement.

13:07 9.12.2014

13:20 9.12.2014

Ukraine's EU ambassador, Kostiantyn Yelisieiev, speaking today on the security situation in eastern Ukraine at an event organized by the European Policy Center (EPC) think tank in Brussels:

"In my view, what needs to be done is first of all try to safeguard solidarity and unity inside the European Union because the main target, the main objective of the Kremlin is to try to disrupt the unity inside the European Union."

"Even the recent decision of Moscow to stop implementing the famous South Stream project -- it [comes from the] the idea how to best try to split the European Union and how best to try to instigate internal instability inside the European Union. Currently you know that by stopping this project, South Stream, Russia would like to put all of the responsibility of failure on the shoulders of the European Union."

13:40 9.12.2014

13:42 9.12.2014

From our correspondent in Brussels, Rikard Jozwiak:

BRUSSELS -- Ukraine's ambassador to the European Union, Kostiantyn Yelisieiev, has accused Russia of seeking to sow discord within the EU.

Yelisieiev was speaking at an event organized by the European Policy Center (EPC) think-tank in Brussels on December 9.

He said that "what needs to be done is first of all try to safeguard solidarity and unity inside the European Union because the main target, the main objective of the Kremlin is to try to disrupt the unity inside the European Union."

Yelisieiev said he believes that was a motive in Russia's decision announced to scrap South Stream project to pipe gas under the Black Sea and into Europe.

He said Russia is thinking about "how to best try to split the European Union."

Moscow has accused the EU of scuttling South Stream, but EU officials say Russian gas company Gazprom has refused to abide by EU competition rules.

13:52 9.12.2014

13:52 9.12.2014

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