Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for long-term help in clearing his war-ravaged nation of mines and other unexploded ordinance, which he said now cover an area roughly the size of Cambodia.
In a video address to New Zealand's parliament, Mr Zelensky described Russia's nearly year-old invasion as an "ecocide" that would have lasting impact and implored Wellington and others to step up aid.
"As of now, 174,000 sq kms (67,000 square miles) of Ukrainian territory are contaminated with mines and unexploded ordnance" Mr Zelensky told politicians.
That is an area roughly the size of Cambodia, Syria or Uruguay.
Mr Zelensky urged New Zealand - whose military has extensive experience in mine clearing - to help lead the clean-up effort.
"There is no real peace for any child who can die from a hidden Russian antipersonnel," he said.
He added that both the Black Sea and the neighbouring Sea of Azov are also littered with mines "and have lost hundreds of thousands of living creatures, those who died as the result of the hostilities".
New Zealand has so far supplied modest amounts of equipment and military training for Ukraine's war effort.
New Zealand has sent over 100 military trainers to Europe to give the Armed Forces of Ukraine advice on soldiering and infantry fighting.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern indicated New Zealand would be willing to help with the cleanup effort and in rebuilding the country.
"We are with you as you seek peace, but we will also be with you as you rebuild," Ms Ardern said.
New Zealand's government has pledged a further US$2m in humanitarian aid to help Ukraine through the winter.
It also highlighted sanctions imposed earlier on Iran - which has provided Russia with scores of drones that have attacked Ukrainian towns and infrastructure.
Russia and Ukraine pounded each other's forces in heavy fighting in the eastern region of Donetsk today as Kyiv's allies meeting in Paris pledged just over €1bn to help Ukrainians survive the freezing winter.
Russian forces are battling to take control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, two of four territories the Kremlin claims to have annexed in votes rejected by most countries as illegal.
Moscow is also attacking Ukraine's energy infrastructure with waves of missile and drone strikes, at times cutting off electricity for millions of civilians enduring Europe's deadliest conflict since World War Two.
Air raid sirens wailed across Ukraine this afternoon, but no new attacks were reported and the all clear was given.
In Paris earlier today, about 70 countries and institutions pledged payments of just over €1bn to help maintain Ukraine's water, food, energy, health and transport, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had said Ukraine needed at least €800m. "It's a lot, but the price is less than the cost of blackout," Mr Zelensky told the meeting via video link.
Ireland pledged additional funding of €30m. Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney said the funds will go towards the reconstruction of schools and healthcare facilities in Ukraine, support for public services, such as pensions, health service delivery and wages of emergency service staff and countering the impact of the energy crisis.
At the conference, Germany said it was providing another €50m in winter aid.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that the country was working to deliver generators, blankets and heating fuel to Ukraine over Christmas.
French President Emmanuel Macron said there was an agreement on removing heavy weapons from Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and that talks were under way on the way to do this.
An Élysée source said the donor conference in Paris is focused on immediate resilience needs for the people of Ukraine and long term reconstruction needs.
The source said France is guaranteeing €400m in loans and €1.2bn in export guarantees, as well as providing €240m in humanitarian aid for Ukraine and surrounding countries.
The Élysée Palace now says that France is the fifth largest supplier in terms of military and security support for Ukraine, and that 100% of what has been promised has been delivered.
This includes 18 CAESAR 155mm self-propelled howitzers and two short-range Crotale air defence missile systems.
France has also contributed 20%, or €550m of the EU's European Peace Facility, a multi-billion euro cash pool funded by member states to provide weapons systems to Ukraine, according to the source.
The Élysée also said France has trained 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers as part of the EU’s training mission for the Ukraine armed forces.
The source said France has taken in 100,000 Ukrainian refugees under the EU’s temporary protection regime, while 20,000 have been given intensive French classes sponsored by the French foreign ministry.
Denis Pushilin, Russian-installed administrator of the portion of Donetsk controlled by Moscow, told Russian media that just over half of the Donetsk People's Republic had been "liberated".
The self-styled republic is a breakaway Russian-backed entity that has fought Ukrainian forces since 2014.
Reuters was unable to independently verify the report.
Fighting in the region in recent weeks has left unclear which parts of Donetsk are under Russian and Ukrainian control.
Three civilians were killed in Donetsk over the past 24 hours, regional Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on his Telegram channel, while in the southern Kherson region, governor Yaroslav Yanushevych reported three people killed by Russian artillery.
Russian troops shelled the part of the Kherson region under Ukrainian control 57 times, he said.
Russia's sustained shelling of the frontline in Donetsk has destroyed Bakhmut city and heavily damaged the city of Avdiivka, which lies in the region's centre, Mr Zelensky said on Friday.
Yesterday, Ukraine's armed forces said Russia kept concentrating its efforts to advance and capture both cities.
Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-installed official in theZ aporizhzhia region, late on Monday shared video on Telegram of what he said was a damaged bridge connecting a suburb to Melitopol, a Russian-occupied city Ukraine sees as vital to Russia's defence of territory it holds in the south, including Crimea.
Reuters could not independently confirm the report.
Ivan Fedorov, Melitopol's exiled mayor, also shared video taken from the perspective of a vehicle approaching what appeared to be the bridge and then reversing away from a section that had buckled.
Mr Fedorov drew a parallel with an attack in October on a more strategically significant road-and-rail bridge linking Russia and the Crimean peninsula. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that blast was orchestrated by Ukraine and unleashed retaliatory strikes on Ukrainian cities including Kyiv.
Alexander Bortnikov, head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), said there had been a significant increase in "terrorist manifestations" in Russia this year, mostly in regions close to Ukraine, according to the Interfax news agency.
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Interfax cited the National Anti-Terrorist Committee, which Mr Bortnikov chairs, as saying 123 such crimes were averted this year, including 64 terrorist acts. Mr Bortnikov said these acts were due to the activities of Western-backed Ukrainian "special services" and those of "international terrorist organisations".
Reuters could not independently verify the latest battlefield accounts.
Russia's close ally Belarus announced a snap military inspection today including increased combat readiness in the south of the country, the latest in a burst of exercises that have prompted concern from neighbouring Ukraine.
Yesterday, G7 promised to "meet Ukraine's urgent requirements" after Mr Zelensky appealed for modern tanks, artillery and long-range weapons. He also urged the G7 to support his idea of convening a special Global Peace Summit.
Today Russia dismissed a peace proposal from Mr Zelensky that would involve a pullout of Russian troops and demanded Kyiv accept new territorial "realities" which included Russia's addition of four Ukrainian regions as its "new subjects".
US President Joe Biden told Mr Zelensky on Sunday that Washington's priority was to boost Ukraine's air defences. The United States also shipped the first batch of power equipment to Ukraine under an aid package agreed last month.
Moscow denies deliberately attacking civilians, but the war has displaced millions and killed thousands of non-combatants.
There are no peace talks under way to end the conflict, which Moscow describes as a "special military operation" against security threats posed by its neighbour. Ukraine and its Western allies call it an unprovoked, imperialist land grab.
Additional reporting: Tony Connelly, Jackie Fox
