'Does Not Correspond With Reality': Ukraine Denies Attacking Russian Oil Depot
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Ukraine on Friday, 1 April, denied carrying out an attack on the oil facility inside Russia and said that Russian negligence may be to blame for the same.
The Kremlin had accused Ukrainian helicopters of attacking the facility and threatened to walk out of peace talks.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Parliament passed a law permitting the seizure of property of Russian war supporters.
In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is on a visit to New Delhi amid the war in Ukraine.
28 people were killed in a rocket strike on a regional administration building in Ukraine's southern city of Mykolaiv on Thursday
The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog has said that he will lead a mission to Ukraine's defunct Chernobyl plant as soon as possible
Ukrainian Photographer Maksim Levin Killed
Maksim Levin, a photographer and videographer who was working for a Ukrainian news website and news agency Reuters was killed while covering the ongoing invasion by Russia.
His body was found in a village north of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on 1 April, the news website he worked for confirmed.
Ukraine Conducts Second Prisoner Exchange
Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk announced that the country has conducted a second prisoner exchange with Russia after the first took place late last month.
Friday's "86 for 86" prisoner exchange took place on President Volodymyr Zelensky's order, Ukrayinska Pravda quoted Vereshchuk as saying in a statement.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, of the 86 prisoners that have returned home, 15 were women soldiers.
Trip to Kyiv on "On The Table": Pope
Pope Francis said on Saturday, 2 April, that he is considering a trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, news agency Reuters reported.
Francis has been invited by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other members of Ukrainian administration and Church.
EU to Impose Further Sanctions on Russia, Won't Affect Energy Sector
The European Union's Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said in Cernobbio on Saturday that EU was working on imposing further sanctions on Russia but any additional measures won't affect the energy sector, reported Reuters.
Ukraine's Economy Could Shrink 40% in 2022: Economy Ministry
Ukraine's economy shrank 16% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year and could contract up to 40% in 2022 due to Russia's invasion, the country's economy ministry said in a statement on Saturday, citing preliminary estimates.
"Areas in which remote work is impossible have suffered the most," it said.
Russia Strikes 2 Central Ukraine Cities With Missiles: Report
Russian missiles hit two cities in central Ukraine on Saturday and damaged infrastructure and residential buildings, the head of the Poltava region Dmitry Lunin said.
"Poltava. A missile struck one of the infrastructure facilities overnight," he wrote in an online post. "Kremenchuk. Many attacks on the city in the morning."
Lunin said there was no immediate information about the possible casualties.
However, the report could not be verified by Reuters.
Ukraine Rejects Kremlin Claim That it Attacked Oil Facility Inside Russia
The secretary of Ukraine’s national security council, Oleksiy Danilov, denied carrying out an attack on the oil facility inside Russia. “For some reason, they say that we did it, but in fact this does not correspond with reality.”
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