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Author: Zane Small & Jenna Lynch

The Government is donating body armour and helmets to Ukrainian forces, and will give $5 million to NATO, breaking from New Zealand's traditional aid funding. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/new-zealand-donates-body-armour-and-helmets-to-ukraine-5-million-to-nato-breaking-from-traditional-aid-funding.html
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Author: Anna Whyte

New Zealand is pledging another $5 million in aid to Ukraine, as well as sending body armour and helmets among other equipment.

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/21/nz-to-send-body-armour-helmets-camouflage-vests-to-ukraine/
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Author: RNZ

The Defence Minister is travelling to Fiji and Australia tomorrow for bilateral visits with his counterparts in the Pacific.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/peeni-henare-travelling-to-fiji-and-australia-to-increase-collaboration-among-new-zealand-s-key-pacific-defence-partners.html
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 Turning out to be one of our worst defence ministers that NZ has ever had... ever.

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Category : Opinion
Author: William Hewett

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she can "see the light" as New Zealand deals with a global cost of living crisis she labels as a "wicked perfect storm".  

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-says-she-can-see-the-light-as-new-zealand-deals-with-wicked-perfect-storm-cost-of-living-crisis.html
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Category: World
Category : Opinion
Author: James Headley

Like Stalin, Putin thinks nations can be defined objectively, and he has declared there is no Ukrainian nation separate from the Russian one. History matters for national identity, but sometimes serves as a tool for aggressive nationalism. 

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Article: A mock funeral ceremony for Vladimir Putin as Adolf Hitler outside the Russian embassy in Kyiv in 2015.
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Category: World
Category : Analysis
Author: Jonathan Beale

Russia has one of the largest and most powerful armed forces in the world, but that has not been apparent in its initial invasion of Ukraine. Many military analysts in the West have been surprised by its performance on the battlefield so far, with one describing it as "dismal".

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Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60798352
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Author: RNZ

Russian cosmonauts have arrived at the International Space Station wearing Ukrainian colours, in what may be a statement opposing the invasion.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/463651/russians-board-international-space-station-in-ukrainian-colours
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Author: Reuters

A senior Chinese government official said on Saturday (local time) that sanctions imposed by Western nations on Russia over Ukraine are increasingly "outrageous".

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/03/ukraine-invasion-senior-chinese-official-calls-russian-sanctions-outrageous.html
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