Polar Researchers are four meters from drilling down into the Lake Vostok (translate.google.com)

I'm sorry about that this needs to be translated - This is from the Danish newspaper Politiken. I tried to find a source in English, but since this is so new I guess it's just not picked up yet

This is the original title, but I'd like to have more information in the titles. What about

"Polar Researchers are four meters from drilling down into the Lake Vostok"

I still don't understand the difference between the current expedition and the 2012 expedition. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok#Research

> By plan, the following summer, the team was to drill down again to take a sample of that ice and analyze it. The Russians resumed drilling into the lake in January 2012 and reached the upper surface of the water on 6 February 2012.

Are they planning to extract liquid water now? (I think that not.) Are they going to extract a new frozen sample of the water in the lake?

I thought they were already there and the Russians somewhat fucked up by contaminating the lake with drill coolant.