Author of the article: Bloomberg News Bloomberg News Date of publication: 02 Apr 2022 • 5 hours ago • 14 minutes reading • 28 comments People cross the Irpin River near a damaged bridge as they are evacuated from the city of Irpin, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, outside Kyiv, on April 1 . Photo by GLEB GARANICH / REUTERS
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Ukraine announced on Saturday that it had occupied all areas around Kyiv, claiming full control of the capital region for the first time since Russia launched the invasion.
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As Russian forces regrouped for battle in the east, areas north of Kiev were filled with damaged Russian tanks. Ukraine’s presidential adviser Okeksiy Arestovych said its troops had recaptured more than 30 towns and villages since Russia withdrew from the region this week. Russia has portrayed the withdrawal of its forces near Kyiv as a gesture of goodwill in the peace talks, which were last convened on Friday. Ukraine and its allies say Russia has been forced to turn its attention to eastern Ukraine after suffering heavy casualties near Kyiv. Ukraine’s military says Russia is deploying more troops in Transnistria, Moldova, near Odessa. The breakaway region has denied the allegations. Moscow did not comment. The United States is sending another $ 300 million in military and medical aid to Ukraine, including Switchblade diving-bombing drones. President Joe Biden’s government will help allies transport Soviet-made tanks to Ukraine to support its defense, the New York Times reported.
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A call between Chinese President Xi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is only a matter of time, according to a Chinese diplomat, a day after Xi’s speech at a virtual EU-China summit. Pope Francis is considering a trip to Kyiv and has strongly criticized the Russian war. Key Developments Gazprom begins telling customers how to pay for gas in rubles Putin has been set at $ 321 billion if oil, gas continue to flow China awaits aid to persuade Russia to end war How war, oil and ships are All CET hours: Negotiator comments on drafting peace agreement (9:15 p.m.)
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Members of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arakhamia, leader of the Servant of the People faction, Mykhailo Podolyak, political adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev, spoke to the media after their meeting with Turkey. Photo by MEHMET CALISKAN / REUTERS Ukrainian negotiator David Arahamia said peace talks with Russia were at a stage that could lead to direct contact between Zelensky and Putin. The latest talks in Turkey “confirmed our position that the draft documents are well prepared for direct consultations between the two leaders,” Arahamia told Ukrainian television. “Our task is to prepare a final stage not of the plan itself, but of the issues we have raised, and to prepare for a future meeting of the presidents,” he said. Mine clearance in the suburbs of Kiev (8:30 p.m.) Mine clearance units working in the Kiev region found 643 explosives on Saturday in Irpin, a suburb of the capital where heavy fighting broke out in early March, Ukraine’s state emergency service said.
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Ukrainian official demands Liberation of the Kiev region (7:35 pm) Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said the cities of Irpin, Bukha, and Hostomel “and the entire Kiev region are free of invaders.” While there is evidence of Russian troops withdrawing from positions north of the capital, the claim on Maliar’s Facebook page could not be verified and there was no comment from Russia. Russia has offered to “radically cut” military operations in northern Ukraine this week, and the Ukrainian military has recaptured territory around Kyiv. The situation in the Chernobyl zone is unclear, the IAEA reports (7:30 p.m.) Ukrainian officials have said that while Russian forces have abandoned the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the situation in the no-go zone around the site is “unclear,” said the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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Ukraine is considering resuming regulatory control of the site, which includes the management of radioactive waste, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a statement. Former ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Putin (6:10 p.m.) Former war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and other senior Kremlin officials. Del Ponte, 75, is best known for investigating war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, including those involving former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. She spoke to the Swiss newspaper Le Temps. “Putin is a war criminal,” he said. “It’s the only means of arresting the perpetrator of a war crime.”
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Ukrainian journalist killed in battle (5:19 pm) The body of the missing Ukrainian photojournalist Max Levine was found in a village north of Kiev, according to a statement posted on the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office on Saturday. Levin, 40, who went missing in the conflict zone on March 13, had worked with Reuters, the BBC, TRT World, the Associated Press, Hromadske and LB.ua, according to the statement. He is survived by four sons, his wife and parents, according to LB.ua. Lithuania closes gas imports due to ruble demand (5:10 pm) The Lithuanian government has said it will no longer import gas from Russia because of its demand for payment in rubles. “We are the first EU country among Gazprom’s supply countries to have fully achieved independence from Russian gas supplies,” said Energy Minister Dainius Kreivys.
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European officials last week expressed confidence that gas shipments would continue, despite Putin’s demand that it be paid in his own currency. “For us, in terms of Putin’s threat or announcement or plan – no one knows how to name it anymore – to be paid in rubles, the key is that the contracts are being kept,” said German Economy Minister Robert Habek. . Russian soldiers disperse protest outside nuclear plant (5:07 p.m.) Russian troops have broken up a demonstration outside the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, Europe’s largest atomic generator, according to a statement from the Energoatom nuclear power regulator. As soon as the arrests began, shots and explosions were heard in the city.
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Russian forces occupied the factory site in the town of Enerkhodar last month following an attack that set the complex on fire. Ukraine then told the International Atomic Energy Agency that the incident “did not affect” basic “equipment” and that no change in radioactivity levels had been reported. Russia hits railway infrastructure, governor says (4:33 p.m.) Russian missiles on Saturday caused severe damage to railways, wagons and other infrastructure in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad, according to Dnipro region governor Valentyn Reznichenko. Companies close $ 45 billion in deals since the start of the war (3:00 p.m.) At least $ 100 billion of global companies have delayed or entered into financing agreements worth more than $ 45 billion since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. These include initial public offerings, bonds or loans and acquisitions.
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US stock market deals were hit hardest by global volatility in the first quarter as a group of companies postponed imports, while Japanese and European debt markets also suffered from delays. The upheaval comes as the conflict has shaken financing markets, hurt investors’ appetite for risk and increased growth uncertainty, interest rate hikes and supply chains. Pope Francis says trip to Kyiv possible (1:52 pm) Pope Francis said a possible trip to the Ukrainian capital was “on the table”, answering a question, according to the Associated Press. Without naming Russia or Vladimir Putin, Francesco, who was on his way to Malta, accused “some powerful people” who were trapped in “anachronistic claims of nationalist interests” to the war.
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Transnistria of Moldova rejects the plan of the Russian forces (12:44 pm) The Foreign Ministry of the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic, a pro-Russian separatist enclave of Moldova, has denied claims by Kiev that its forces and redeployed Russian troops are preparing for hostilities against Ukraine in a possible new war. The military units remain in their permanent missions, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced …
