Investors lose Rs 5.6 lakh crore in 3 days as Ukraine crisis deepens: Key factors impacting Dalal Street

Indian equity benchmarks -- Sensex and Nifty50 -- recovered much of the day's losses in a volatile session on Friday, as the Ukraine crisis deepened. Investors remained nervous across global financial markets after the news of Russian military forces seizing the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

Both headline indices fell as much as 2.2 percent during the session before recovering some of those losses. The 30-scrip index lost 768.9 points or 1.4 percent for the day to settle at 54,333.8, though recovering 446.1 points from the weakest level of the day. The broader Nifty50 benchmark settled at 16,245.4, down 252.7 points or 1.5 percent from its previous close.