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More than $80 million has been set aside in the federal budget for those planning for pregnancy to access genetic testing, as the prime minister focused on women's health.

The $81.2 million package will allow for a Medicare rebate for couples planning pregnancy to access genetic testing for cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy and fragile X syndrome.

It comes as the government also announced a $58 million package for endometriosis treatment, ahead of Tuesday night's budget.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the funding would help to support women living with the condition.

"One in nine Australian women and girls suffer from endometriosis, and they suffer, I can't underscore that more strongly," the prime minister told reporters in Sydney on Friday.

"It is a disease that you suffer with, and constantly, and regularly, and it is unrelenting."

The funding will go towards building treatment centres, improving telehealth services and offering Medicare rebates for MRI scans related to the disorder, which affects one in nine Australian women.

More than a quarter of the funding amount will go to establishing specialised endometriosis and pelvic pain clinics in each state and territory.

The clinics will host GPs who specialise in women's health and pain management, nurses, allied health professionals and educators.

More than $5 million will help grow endometriosis research capacity and address research gaps.

The support for endometriosis treatment has been backed by Mr Morrison's wife Jenny, who revealed she was diagnosed with the condition when she was 26, after struggling to conceive.

Mrs Morrison told the Nine Network on Friday she started experiencing pain when she was in year eight, but the condition went undiagnosed for years.

"Nothing helped, and then it got really severe. So, people with endometriosis, it's not just like a few cramps or something like that, it's actually really debilitating," she said.

"When specialists told me, 'you should give up (trying to conceive)' and 'it's never going to happen for you', when you hear that I was broken, I was really very upset."

Ms Morrison then ended up having surgery for endometriosis before giving birth to two children naturally.

The prime minister said the announcement would enable people with endometriosis to be as pain-free as possible and diagnosed earlier.

"There is no cure for this. But all the time, they're learning better ways to how people can live with it and try and minimise the impact it has on their lives that the rest of us take for granted," Mr Morrison said.

"It's important that we get the education and the awareness so clinical professionals and others know and can pick up on it and connect people to services."

Meanwhile, the Royal Flying Doctor Service will be bolstered with $80 million of additional funding over the next decade.

Alongside the financial boost, the government will enter a 10-year partnership with the regional health service worth almost $1 billion.

Regional Health Minister David Gillespie says the partnership will give more long-term support to the organisation.

The new funding agreement will start from July 1 this year and it's expected the 10-year strategic agreement between the government and the service will be put in place shortly afterwards.

"Our new formal agreement will give the RFDS certainty and allow it to offer more flexible services that are responsive to local patient's needs," Dr Gillespie said.

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Ukraine says it has destroyed a large Russian landing support ship, the Orsk, at the Russian-occupied port of Berdiansk on the Sea of Azov as NATO leaders meeting in Brussels agreed to strengthen the alliance's forces in eastern Europe.

Video footage, which Reuters was able to confirm was filmed from inside Berdiansk, showed a column of smoke rising from a blaze at a dock and the flash of an explosion.

Two vessels, one of which appeared to have been damaged, were seen in the footage sailing out of the dock as a third ship burned.

Reuters could not confirm if it was the Orsk on fire in the film.

Russian officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the report that the support ship had been destroyed.

Russia said on Monday the ship had docked at Berdiansk, 70km southwest of the besieged port city of Mariupol, and the website of the Russian armed forces news outlet Zvezda underlined the port's importance to Russian supply lines.

"Yes, it's destroyed," Ukraine's Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar told a video briefing when asked about the Orsk.

The ship was capable of carrying 45 armoured personnel carriers and 400 people, she said.

As part of what Russia calls a "special military operation" launched almost a month ago, Russian forces have seized most of the Ukrainian coast along the Sea of Azov except for Mariupol, which has refused to surrender.

"It doesn't matter what kind of forces and means these losses were inflicted on the enemy - we can definitely say that this operation was successful," Ukrainian Defence Ministry spokesman Oleksander Motuzyanyk said.

At an unprecedented summit of the NATO military alliance, G7 members and European leaders to address the continent's biggest military crisis since the 1990s Balkans wars, new battle groups were announced for four eastern European countries.

The US and UK expanded sanctions blacklists, various countries announced new military and humanitarian aid as well as promises to take in refugees and the European Union was set to unveil steps to wean itself off Russian energy.

NATO, which has already beefed up its eastern flank to 40,000 troops spread from the Baltic to the Black Sea, agreed on Thursday to set up new combat units in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.

"We must ensure that the decision to invade a sovereign independent country is understood to be a strategic failure that carries with it ruinous costs for Putin and Russia," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the EU parliament.

Still, the pledges stopped short of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's calls for a full boycott of Russian energy and a no-fly zone over Ukraine.

Thousands of people have been killed, millions made refugees and cities pulverised since Russian leader Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion on February 24.

More than 3.6 million people have fled Ukraine since the invasion began, according to the United Nations.

In a month of fighting, Ukraine has fended off what many analysts had anticipated would be a quick Russian victory.

So far, Russia has failed to capture any major city.

Its armoured columns have barely moved in weeks, stalled at the gates of the capital Kyiv and besieging cities in the east.

They have taken heavy casualties and are low on supplies.

Ukrainian officials say they are now shifting onto the offensive and have pushed back Russian forces, including north of Kyiv.

As US President Joe Biden rallied allies on his first trip aboard since the war began, the US announced new sanctions against Russia, $US1 billion ($A1.3 billion) more in humanitarian aid for Ukraine and an offer to take in 100,000 refugees.

The Kremlin said NATO suffered from a "hysterical and inadequate" understanding of what is going on in Ukraine.

In the Russian-held part of Mariupol, trucks arrived with food supplies in cardboard boxes bearing the "Z" logo that has become the Russian symbol of its "special operation".

Hundreds of people, many elderly, emerged from surrounding ruins, queuing mostly in silence as men in Russian emergencies ministry uniforms distributed boxes.

Angelina, a young mother-of-two, said she had received bread, nappies and baby food.

"It's difficult to leave by bus now. We hope the number of people trying to get out will go down and it will get easier for us to leave," she said.

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Emerging Gold Coast winger Treymain Spry has been cleared of any wrongdoing after an off-field incident left him badly injured on the eve of the NRL season.

The 22-year-old, who has played five NRL games, scored twice in their preseason draw with Brisbane last month as he looked to work his way into coach Justin Holbrook's top squad.

News Corp reported on Thursday that Spry suffered a fractured skull, a broken eye socket and bleeding on the brain in the incident in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley a fortnight ago.

The Gold Coast club issued a statement saying: "As per media reports, the Gold Coast Titans can confirm Treymain Spry is recovering from an off-field incident.

"Treymain has been cleared of any wrongdoing by Queensland Police and the NRL Integrity Unit.

"As the matter is now before the courts, the club will make no further comment at this stage."

Queensland Police said a man had been charged in connection with the incident and was due to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on April 11.

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