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Kiwi aid worker Andrew Bagshawwas killed in Ukraine.
The bodies of New Zealand and British volunteers killed in Ukraine have been returned, the BBC is reporting.
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff told the BBC that the bodies of Chris Parry, 28, and Andrew Bagshaw, 47, had been returned to Ukraine in a prisoner swap with Russia.
Bagshaw, a New Zealand aid worker, was in late-January confirmed to have died in Ukraine.
”He and a colleague, Chris Parry, were attempting to rescue an elderly woman from Soledar, in an area of intense military action, when their car was hit by an artillery shell,” a statement from his Christchurch-based parents Dame Sue and Professor Phil Bagshaw said.
BBC reports that the bodies have been returned to Ukraine but it was unknown when they would be handed to the British embassy to return home.
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