Category : News
Author: RNZ

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

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

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

Russia said on Saturday it had used hypersonic Kinzhal (Dagger) missiles to destroy a large weapons depot in Ukraine's western Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/03/russia-fires-hypersonic-missiles-at-ukraine-for-first-time.html
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Author: Jamie Ensor

Russian President Vladimir Putin, a state bank and the "Death Battalion" are among the first people and entities New Zealand has imposed sanctions on under new legislation passed last week.

However, Alexander Abramov, a Russian steel magnate known in New Zealand for his luxury property in Northland, isn't on the just-released list. He also doesn't feature on the lists of overseas partners our Government is wanting to align with.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/russia-ukraine-war-vladimir-putin-death-battalion-make-new-zealand-sanctions-list-but-not-oligarch-with-northland-mansion.html
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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.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/03/russians-soldiers-using-ukrainian-ammunition-to-shoot-their-leg-to-get-sent-home.html
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Author: Reuters

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.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/03/russia-getting-bogged-down-in-ukraine-western-nations-say.html
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Author: Reuters

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.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/03/russia-accuses-ukraine-of-trying-to-frame-it-over-mariupol-theatre-attack.html
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