Kasia Madera and Rebecca Hartman
reporting from Lublin, Poland

Monika is a language student who speaks fluent Russian.

She volunteers at a centre in Lublin, in eastern Poland, translating for refugees who have fled Ukraine and are now being integrated into Polish society.

They are here to get a PESEL, Poland's electronic ID number that gives Polish citizens access to the country's health care and education services, as well as giving them the opportunity to get a job and pay taxes.

It is also the gateway for the millions of refugees who fled Ukraine to access the same services.

The Polish government says 595,590 PESEL numbers have been issued so far, around 40,000 to 50,000 per day.

Monika says it is hard not to get emotional when she hears the stories of the mothers and children who fled Ukraine.

She knows her role at this centre, like many across Poland, is helping the refugees to settle and will let the children she sees go to school.

Image source, Russian Emergencies Ministry

More now on claims that two Ukrainian helicopters attacked an oil storage depot in a Russian city.

A video shared on Twitter, external shows a blaze near apartment blocks in Belgorod, some 40km (25 miles) from the border with Ukraine.

Some clips appear to show rockets hitting the oil depot.

Local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a Telegram message "there was a fire at the oil depot because of an air strike carried out by two Ukrainian army helicopters, which entered Russian territory at low altitude".

"Nobody was killed," he added.

Governor Gladkov's allegation was not confirmed by Ukrainian officials.

Read our full story here.

As we've been reporting, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in India as part of efforts to strengthen ties with Delhi.

In a statement released before talks with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Lavrov said Russia appreciated India's response to the war in Ukraine, according to Reuters news agency.

"We appreciate that India [is] taking this situation in the entirety of facts and not just in a one-sided way," Lavrov said.

India has stopped short of criticising Russia for invading Ukraine.

It has tried to walk a diplomatic tightrope over Ukraine as it tries to balance its ties with Moscow and the West.

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is also in India in an attempt to boost relations.

Rajini Vaidyanathan
BBC South Asia Correspondent

Image source, External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar on Twitter

As he was welcomed onto the tarmac at Delhi airport yesterday, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov held his palms together in the traditional Indian namaste. Russia might be considered an enemy to many in the world, but here it remains an ally.

Lavrov is in India today for talks which are expected to include discussions on how India can buy more oil from Moscow.

The visit, his first to the country since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, comes a day after the UK foreign secretary Liz Truss was in Delhi. Unlike Truss, Lavrov is due to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

New Delhi has so far remained neutral on the issue of Ukraine - while Modi has called for the violence to end, he has stopped short of denouncing Russia’s actions.

The two nations have decades-long ties - India buys the majority of its arms from Moscow, but it’s the sale of cheap crude oil from Russia which is likely to be the focus of today’s discussions.

Russia has offered India a payment system for oil which wouldn’t break sanctions regulations, but the US deputy national security adviser who was in Delhi yesterday warned there would be “consequences” for countries which actively attempt to circumvent sanctions.

Indian officials stress that Russian oil makes up a tiny proportion of the country’s overall energy supplies, and point out that Europe still buys far more.

You can read more about this issue here.

Jeremy Bowen
BBC Middle East editor, in Kyiv

Footage of Russian troops shooting a man with his hands up on a highway outside Kyiv at the beginning of March was shared around the world.

Now the Russians have been pushed out of the area the grim aftermath of their short-lived occupation can be seen.

We counted 13 bodies on a nightmarish stretch of road not much more than 200 yards long, between Mria and Myla, villages whose Ukrainian names translate as Dream and Sweetheart.

Two of the dead are confirmed as Ukrainian civilians who were killed by the Russians. The others have not been identified yet - they lie where they were killed - but only two are wearing recognisable Ukrainian military uniforms.

Our BBC team was able to get to the area, on the main E-40 highway as it approaches Kyiv, because Ukrainian forces had captured the sector only 10 hours earlier.

The marks of battle and of heavy shelling were everywhere. Petrol stations and a hotel that was well-known for its spa and restaurant were in ruins. Shell holes and craters pockmarked both carriageways.

Left behind in the heart of the desolation were the dead bodies, and a mass of questions and concerns about who they were and how they died.

Read more from Jeremy here.

Wyre Davies
BBC News, Zaporizhzhia

The small International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) convoy of just three vehicles has left Zaporizhzhia, travelling towards Mariupol with the aim of trying to facilitate the evacuation of civilians from the besieged city, after receiving security guarantees from all sides.

This trip to Mariupol has been described as "desperately important" by the Red Cross, with tens of thousands of people still trapped inside the city that has been relentless bombarded by Russian troops.

But the delayed mission is by no means guaranteed of success.

Previous attempts to establish humanitarian corridors haven’t worked because tentatively agreed ceasefires didn’t hold.

It’s understood the primary purpose of this small Red Cross convoy will be to facilitate and accompany the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol in buses provided by the Ukrainian government.

They want to do the operation in a day, hopefully meeting with the buses further along the road.

Image source, Reuters

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov are visiting India as both sides seek to strengthen ties with Delhi.

Truss is urging Delhi to come alongside other democratic countries to counter Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and reduce its dependence on Moscow.

Lavrov, who is meeting PM Modi and Foreign Minister S Jaishankar today, is expected to call on Delhi to buy more Russian oil and gas, and to bypass Western sanctions.

Earlier this month, India agreed to import three million barrels of discounted Russian oil, which the government says is "still be a drop, literally a drop, in a larger bucket" of its oil imports.

India has abstained from a UN vote against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and has not condemned it, saying that dialogue and diplomacy is the only way forward.

At an event in Delhi, Truss spoke of a "network of liberty." She told Mr Jaishankar it was vital that democracies worked together to deter aggressors.

However, she added that India was a sovereign nation, and the UK would not tell other countries what to do.

Read more about this here

Adam Easton
Warsaw Correspondent

More than 2.4 million people have fled Ukraine to Poland since the war began, the Polish Border Guard said on Friday.

Numbers crossing the border have fallen significantly with Thursday seeing the third lowest number of crossings since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.

On Thursday 23,000 crossed, down 9.5% from Wednesday, the agency wrote on Twitter. By 0600 GMT on Friday itself, 3,500 people had crossed - that’s down 24% from the same period on Thursday.

There are increasing numbers going to Ukraine - 406,000 people have entered Ukraine through Poland since the war began, the agency said. On Thursday alone,15,000 people crossed into Ukraine from Poland.

Some of the people fleeing Ukraine have already left Poland. Warsaw University migration research professor Maciej Duszczyk estimates around 1.3 to 1.4 million refugees remain.

Good morning, here is a quick reminder of what is happening in Ukraine today:

• The governor of the Russian city of Belgorod has accused Ukrainian military helicopters of attacking an oil depot in the city - Ukraine has not claimed responsibility
• A convoy of buses is due to arrive in the besieged southern city of Mariupol today to evacuate civilians and deliver humanitarian aid
• But the Red Cross says its aid vehicles had been delayed in the city of Zaporizhzhia as it awaited security guarantees for the team - these have now been received

• Today also sees the start of new rules brought in by Russia to force foreign buyers of Russian gas to buy using roubles by opening special bank accounts
• In its daily intelligence update, the UK Ministry of Defence has said Ukrainian forces have retaken villages to the south of Chernihiv
• The MoD added that Ukraine has continued making "succesful but limited" counterattacks to the east and north-east of Kyiv

An aide to the mayor of Mariupol has said the besieged southern Ukrainian city remained closed for anyone trying to enter and was "very dangerous" for anyone trying to leave, Reuters news agency reports.

Petro Andryushchenko said Russian forces had been preventing humanitarian supplies reaching trapped residents, making clear a planned "humanitarian corridor" had not been opened.

We reported earlier that a Red Cross convoy carrying medical aid to the port city has been delayed.

A Russian foreign ministry spokesman has told a local outlet that Moscow won't demand the EU lift its sanctions, despite the Kremlin having previously described the West's actions as "economic warfare".

“We will not act as petitioners in terms of lifting sanctions. We have a margin of safety. And the European Union is not the centre of the universe," the representative, Nikolai Kobrinets told Ria Novosti.

The state media outlet reported claims that the Russian government has 100 initiatives planned to counter sanctions. On Thursday, Russia also threatened to stop gas supplies to foreign countries if they didn't pay in roubles.

Read more on that energy supply story here.

Eight tanks of fuel are on fire at the oil depot in Belgorod in Russia and there is a threat of the fire moving to eight more, Russian state news outlet RIA Novosti, external is reporting emergency services as saying.

The agency says that residents of nearby streets are being evacuated but mayor Anton Ivanov has said that two workers at the depot were not injured.

The regional governor earlier said the fire was a result of a strike by two Ukrainian military helicopters. Ukraine has not claimed the attack.

The BBC cannot independently verify the claims.

Wyre Davies
BBC News, Zaporizhzhia

A Red Cross (ICRC) convoy carrying humanitarian and medical aid into Mariupol is stranded in Zaporizhzhia as the required security guarantees for the team have not yet been received, on Friday.

The convoy of five support vehicles and two aid trucks would hopefully bring some relief to the besieged city where tens of thousands of people remain trapped.

Amid some confusion, the Red Cross team was also hoping to supervise the extraction of hundreds of civilians from Mariupol on buses provided by the Ukrainian government. Those buses, more than 40 in number, travelled ahead of the ICRC team on Thursday but, according to Ukrainian sources, were stopped at the town of Berdyansk in Russian-held territory.

According to reports, some of the buses were looted by Russian soldiers of some of the aid they were carrying. A small number of buses were able to return independently to Zaporizhzhia with civilians on board who were fleeing fighting in other Russian-controlled areas.

The Red Cross team are unlikely to proceed without the necessary security guarantees (a ceasefire) from all sides. How the 30 remaining buses, still believed to be delayed in Berdyansk, proceed either with or without ICRC supervision is also unclear.

It's now just past 9:00am in Kyiv, and the UK Ministry of Defence has published its latest daily intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine. Here's what they've said:

• Ukrainian forces have retaken the villages of Sloboda and Lukashivka to the south of Chernihiv and located along one of the main supply routes between that city and Kyiv.
• Ukraine continues to make successful but limited counterattacks to the east and north-east of Kyiv.
• Both Chernihiv and Kyiv have faced continued air and missile strikes despite Russian claims of reducing military activity in these areas.

This comes as Nato's general secretary Jens Stoltenberg said Russian forces in Ukraine are regrouping to double down on their attacks in the east of the country

Image source, Ukrainian Armed Forces

Ukrainian forces say the partial withdrawal of Russian forces from northern Kyiv toward the border with Belarus is continuing. Here's what else it said in its daily military update:

• These columns of military and civilian vehicles include buses, trucks and vans, which were stolen by Russian forces
• Russian forces also took looted property with them
• In some areas which were occupied by Russian forces, Ukrainian businesses were asked to deal in Russian roubles.
• Ukrainian forces destroyed three tanks, two armoured vehicles, two vehicles and two artillery systems. They also took down an 'Orlan-10' unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

The BBC has not independently verified these claims.

A video showing what is allegedly an oil depot on fire in the Russian city of Belgorod is being widely shared on social media.

Huge plumes of smoke can be seen rising up into the sky, in this tweet by Belarusian media outlet Nexta.

Belgorod's regional governor has accused Ukrainian military helicopters of being behind the attack. Ukraine has not claimed any responsbility.

Belgorod is located about 30km (18mi) from the Ukrainian border and 60 km from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has been bombed by Russian troops since the start of the war.

The BBC has not been able to independently verify the footage.

The regional governor of the Russian city of Belgorod has accused Ukrainian military helicopters of attacking an oil depot in the city.

Vyacheslav Gladkov said on his Telegram channel that the fire, which broke out on Friday morning, was caused by air strikes from two Ukrainian helicopters.

He had earlier said that two were injured, but not in any life-threatening danger. Residents of nearby streets were evacuated as firefighters tackle the blaze, he said.

It comes just two days after the region also saw explosions at an arms storage building. Belgorod sits just north of the border with Ukraine.

Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for any of the blasts.

This is some precise driving.

This video, appearing to show cars carefully driving around landmines in the road, has emerged on social media. It's believed to be the E373 highway near the village of Potashnya, north-west of Kyiv.

The BBC cannot independently verify this video, or confirm who placed the mines or why.

A former British Army tank commander said they appear to be soviet era TM-62M anti-tank mines, carrying around 7.5kg (16.5lbs) of explosives, which explode only when subjected to significant pressure.

Justin Crump said both sides are using mines in this area to prevent battlefield movement, and added it was a "highly ineffective minefield, placed out mainly for effect".

Nada Tawfik
BBC News, New York

At the last round of peace talks in Istanbul, Ukraine proposed abandoning its NATO ambitions and becoming a neutral state in exchange for security guarantees and freezing the status of occupied Crimea for 15 years.

But Russia’s first deputy permanent representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy has poured cold water on that proposal.

He told me that while it was too early to determine the specifics of a peace agreement, returning control of Crimea and the Donbas region to Ukraine was off the table.

“Crimea is part of the Russian Federation, I think this issue is closed so there’s nothing to consult about," he said.

The unlawful annexation is not internationally recognized.

But he was less definitive, however, about whether Russia would accept Ukraine joining the European Union, saying there were different ideas about it in Moscow.

Weeks in, the deputy ambassador says his country’s military operation is going to plan and that suggestions by the White House that President Putin is being misled are “ridiculous.”

He responds to most questions by trying to undermine the facts that underpin them or by deflecting away from them:

• Russia shelling civilians and committing crimes against humanity? Fake news, he says
• Russia blocking humanitarian access? Ukrainian nationals are at fault, not Russia, he alleges
• Russian generals being killed in high numbers? That was debunked, he claims

The trouble is, if the UN General Assembly’s voting record is any indication, very few nations believe Moscow’s propaganda.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says Ukraine has now told them that Russian troops are now out of Chernobyl.

The IAEA said Russian forces had "in writing, transferred control of the nuclear power plant to Ukrainian personnel".

Staff at the plant had said there were no more "outsiders" at the site, though the IAEA had earlier said it was unable to confirm this.

Russian troops had taken control of Chernobyl at the beginning of their invasion of Ukraine.

It kept Ukraine staff at the plant there to maintain operations. Chernobyl - the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986 - has no nuclear reactor but needs management.

Read more on this here