What was known on 1 April 2022 about Mariupol corridor
A look back at the reports from the days around 1 April 2022, from a planned humanitarian corridor to strikes on fuel depots.
What did the reports say as of 1 April 2022? The Russian Ministry of Defence had stated on 31 March 2022 that its forces would reopen a humanitarian corridor from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia the following day, at the request of the leaders of France and Germany.
Fuel depots under attack
In the preceding days, oil storage sites in western Ukraine had been hit. On 27 March 2022, a missile struck an oil depot in Volyn region, according to Yurii Pohuliaiko, head of the regional administration. On 28 March 2022, a Russian missile attack hit an oil depot in Rivne region, according to the head of the regional military administration. It was the second attack on an oil facility in the region and the latest in a series of similar strikes over recent days.
Slavutych and Warsaw
On 26 March 2022, the mayor of Slavutych, where Chornobyl nuclear power plant workers live, said three people had died when Russian forces took control of the town in February.
The same day in Warsaw, Joe Biden said Putin could not remain in power. An administration official told journalists minutes later that the point was that Putin must not be allowed to exercise power over his neighbours or the region, and that the president had not been discussing Putin's rule in Russia or regime change.
Elsewhere
On 26 March 2022, Russia said Azerbaijani forces had entered the Russian peacekeeping zone in Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijani officials said it was a false flag operation by Armenian soldiers. On 29 March 2022, a regional court in Hajnówka ruled that pushbacks of migrants on the Belarus–Poland border violated Polish law.
