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New Zealand’s RNZ apologises for ‘pro-Kremlin garbage’ on Ukraine

Protesters in Ukraine's Maidan Square in December 2013 [File: Sergei Grits/AP Photo]

The editor-in-chief of New Zealand’s national public service radio broadcaster has apologised for publishing “pro-Kremlin garbage” after changes were found to have been made to more than a dozen wire agency articles covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Appearing on RNZ’s Nine to Noon programme, Paul Thompson, who is also the station’s chief executive, apologised for the “serious breach” of editorial standards.

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