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Author: Molly Swift

Russian soldiers are looking for a way out of the war, with some resorting to shooting their own legs to get sent home.

In a phone call intercepted by the Security Service of Ukraine, a Russian soldier revealed to his mother some soldiers no longer want to fight and have a cunning plan to get sent home.

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British defence minister Ben Wallace ordered an inquiry on Thursday after an imposter claiming to be the Ukrainian prime minister contacted him and asked several "misleading questions".

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Author: Thomas Manch

Ukraine is “grateful” for New Zealand’s new Russia sanctions law, though the Government has not yet laid sanctions and has not been invited to join a US-led “Russian oligarch taskforce”.

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A group of former New Zealand service personnel are planning to escort two Ukrainian New Zealanders back to their war-torn country, as bombs fall dangerously close to their family and friends.

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Russian forces in Ukraine are blasting cities and killing civilians but no longer making progress on the ground, Western countries said on Thursday, as a war Moscow was thought to have hoped to win within days entered its fourth week.

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The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that a Ukrainian allegation that the Russian air force had bombed a theatre in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol was a lie and that the truth would emerge despite what it called attempts to frame Moscow.

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday said U.S. President Joe Biden's characterization of Russian leader Vladimir Putin as a war criminal was "unacceptable and unforgivable rhetoric", Tass news agency said.

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A nine-year-old Ukrainian girl that lost her arm and father after being gunned down by Russian forces hopes the soldiers "didn't mean to hurt her".

The girl, known only as Sasha, was trying to flee Kyiv with her family when Russian soldiers opened fire on their car and then the family as they ran on foot to shelter.

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