Fire Breaks Out At Ukrainian TV Station
A fire broke out at a Ukrainian television station in Kyiv, although nobody was hurt in the incident on September 4.
TV Inter's headquarters caught fire after a group of around 20 protesters gathered outside the building and set tires afire and threw them in the building.
Kyiv police official Andrei Krishenko said witnesses believed a smoke bomb had been thrown into the building.
Authorities said they had arrested six people in connection with the fire.
The station continued broadcasting from mobile facilities outside the building.
The station is widely regarded by many Ukrainians as being pro-Russia. The affiliation of the protesters was not clear.
A conflict in eastern Ukraine between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian troops has killed more than 9,500 people.
Based on reporting by AP and Interfax
Merkel, Putin Talk Syria, Ukraine On Sidelines Of G20 Summit
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had a face-to-face meeting for nearly two hours late on September 4 on the sidelines of the G20 summit in China.
German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said the two leaders discussed the Syrian conflict, especially the "catastrophic" humanitarian situation in Aleppo, which is under siege by Syrian government forces.
Seibert said Putin and Merkel also spoke "very concretely" about the conflict in Ukraine and how to implement the Minsk agreement, a cease-fire and peace plan aimed at resolving the war in eastern Ukraine.
It was the first meeting between Merkel and Putin in several months. Relations have been strained since Russia's forcible annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
A peace deal co-signed by France and Germany in February 2015 in Minsk was meant to end the fighting. But the more than two-year-old war has now killed more than 9,500 people as the sides trade blame for violating the truce.
Based on reporting by dpa and Reuters
This ends our live blogging for September 4. Be sure to check back tomorrow for our continuing coverage.