Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky remains defiant in face of further Russian advances; the head of the federal government’s disaster recovery agency says severely flooded homes should not be rebuilt; Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has broken a promise to deliver four railway station car parks that had been criticised as examples of pork barrelling. 

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