UPDATE: Several injured in Inter TV fire:
Five people were reportedly hurt when a fire broke at a Ukrainian television station in Kyiv.
TV Inter's headquarters caught fire on September 4 after a group of around 20 protesters gathered outside the building and set tires afire and threw them in the building.
Reports say that several employees were treated for carbon-monoxide poisoning while another suffered a broken leg, according to an Inter statement.
Kyiv police official Andrei Krishenko said witnesses indicated a smoke bomb was 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. (AP, Interfax, TASS)
Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council (CLICK TO ENLARGE):
Russia Starts Military Drills On Ukraine’s Border, In Annexed Crimea
Moscow has launched large-scale military drills on Ukraine's eastern border and around Ukraine’s Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula.
The Russian Defense Ministry said September 5 that 12,500 servicemen are taking part in the drills across its southern military region. It said the Russian Navy in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea are participating in the exercises and that planes also are being used.
The six-day exercises will test the army's ability to "plan, prepare, and carry out military actions," the ministry said in a statement.
Russia last month conducted a large-scale snap drill, putting its troops on full combat readiness in military districts bordering Ukraine and the Baltic states.
Tensions between Russia and Ukraine spiked over the summer after Moscow accused Kyiv of attempting armed incursions into Russia-annexed Crimea.
Ukraine and its Western allies have been locked in a confrontation with Russia since Moscow forcibly seized the region from Kyiv in March 2014.