singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with a notable increase in military activity increase in military activity in the southern and eastern ukraine. the ukrainian armed forces say they ve launched several attacks, forces say they ve launched severalattacks, but forces say they ve launched several attacks, but the russians insist there attacks have been repelled. russian officials are claiming that their troops have succeeded in blocking attacks around donetsk, luhansk and zaporizhzhia. the ukrainian attack on donetsk was set to be on a significant scale, but the eastern city of bakhmut is described as the epicentre of hostilities, where ukraine s ground forces are set to be moving forward strongly against russian positions. in the moment, we will have the latest from moscow, but there is to keep, and our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse. shhh. in a war of words, a call for quiet from kyiv. shhh. when it comes to its an
possible serial killer now on the loose. arthel: senior correspondent claudius in a west coast beer with the very latest on this. what more can you tell us? what s arthel residents are on edge one if a serial killer is preying on vulnerable women there. the bodies as you mentioned of six women have been found within 100 miles of each other on the sides of roads, in the woods or in remote rural areas always in the last four months. the first victim was found in february the most recent last month. 22-year-old ashley was found on may 7 after vanishing at the end of march. 32-year-old joanna speaks and mother of three disappeared at about the same time. her body was found on april 8 for the medical examiner said she died of blunt force trauma to the head and back. her death has been ruled a homicide. remains out bridget webster one week after gerry perry had disappeared in early march. also on april 24, the body of an unidentified native american woman was found there a freeway
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it s the most frightening thing in the world. a young wife. she always saw the good and people. she had a way to make you smile. missing for nine days. it is so happening. she is somewhere she shouldn t be. it s hard enough when they didn t know. much worse when they did. i came over the tv that the body had been found. as long as i live i won t forget that. it did. had her troubled past caught up to her? it s going to freak out. or, was it something darker? he said that he would put it in her rebel. how did she change? she became more sexual with people. we wanted her dad? you found him somewhat of a player, but does that make him a killer? one night, she was supposed to meet her husband at their friends place for dinner, but she never showed up. and, never came back home. who was responsible for her disappearance? here is dennis murphy, with secrets and seattle. seattle a small tattoo at the back, a nexus with signs of strangulation. dete