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Author: RNZN

Taupo to the rescue, when sailing recently, catamaran Beleveer suffered an engine failure near Great Barrier Island. HMNZS Taupo was in the vicinity to act on their Mayday call.

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New talk of compromise from both Moscow and Kyiv on a status for Ukraine outside of NATO lifted hope on Wednesday (local time) for a potential breakthrough after three weeks of war.

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Author: Reuters

The United States and other NATO members said on Wednesday (local time) they would keep helping Ukraine fight off Russia's invasion, while also adapting the alliance's own security to the "new reality" triggered by the war.

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Author: Reuters

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged American lawmakers to do more to protect his country from Russia's invasion in an address to the US Congress on Wednesday (local time) in which he pleaded with President Joe Biden to be the world's "leader of peace."

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Author: Lisette Reymer

While Russian forces have struggled to make rapid headway in their efforts to topple the capital, they have made greater inroads in the south. 

Advancing from the annexed Russian-held region of Crimea, troops have surrounded the battered city of Mariupol and captured Melitopol and Kherson.  

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/03/russian-ukraine-war-odesa-becomes-military-fortress-so-it-doesn-t-fall-to-russian-forces.html
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Author: Simon Ewing Jarvie

The Ides of March is best known in history for the assassination of Julius Caesar (in 44 BC). In 2022, 15 March marked a turning point in defence force acquisition for New Zealand. There was no media stand-up and smiling announcement from PM Ardern or Defence Minister Henare. Just an entry on the NZ Government Electronic Tender Service stating the project was canned:

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 I will have something to say about this once I gather my thoughts... But now is not the time to be cutting back on defence. We have a very unstable world and our region is no longer the benign area it use to be.
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Author: Geoffrey Miller

International analyst Geoffrey Miller puts New Zealand's new humanitarian visa policy for Ukrainians under the microscope and considers the implications of claims of a potential role for China in Russia's war against Ukraine

ANALYSIS: With the Russia Sanctions Act now in place, New Zealand this week turned its focus to humanitarian assistance for Ukrainians fleeing the war. UN figures on Monday showed that some 2.8 million refugees had left Ukraine since the war began.

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Author: Reuters

Three European prime ministers headed to Kyiv by train on Tuesday (local time) for the first visit of its kind since war began, even as buildings there were ablaze and rescue workers were trying to pull survivors from the rubble of fresh Russian bombardment.

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