Celia Hatton
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And it's a video that's, you know, obviously zipped around the Internet.
Everybody's watching it.
Everybody's commenting on it.
It is so rare that there are happy moments in this war.
And this is one that's just so extraordinary.
There are so many families here whose sons, wives, husbands, people who were fighting in the war have gone missing in action.
And people are many families.
I've met them over my time here today.
Many people are hoping that those people are prisoners of war, but they don't know, in fact, whether they've been killed.
So there's this massive doubt for so many families who wait for that moment that tells them one way or the other.
So for this family, it's amazingly good news.
But of course, there's a body that was buried in the village cemetery, and that is a soldier whose own family have no idea where they are.
And that soldier still has to be identified properly.
So, you know, joy for one family, but there's going to be obviously grief for another one to come.
Sarah Rainsford in Kiev.
To New Zealand now, the country's deputy prime minister has been booed after saying that colonization had a positive effect on the country's indigenous people, the Maoris.
David Seymour has since said he is unfazed by the reaction to his comments, which he made in a speech on Thursday marking Waitangi Day.
It commemorates the first treaty with the Maori population.
Then, a day later, during a dawn prayer service, David Seymour was relentlessly heckled.
Bernadette Kehoe tells us more.