How to make a redirect from one page segment to another?

Question

Nginx

Hello!
I had to shorten the url of all materials to a shorter one.
It was: site.ru/news/item/{url of material}
It became: site.ru/news/{url of material}
How to make a redirect so that all requests are redirected from "was" -> "became". Well, of course, so that search robots understand this matter.

Answer 1

location ~ ^/news/item/(?<url>.*)$ {
    return 301 /news/$url$is_args$args;
}

Answer 2

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