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
this is bbc news. it s newsday. hi there, thank you for being with us. we start with the notable increase in military activity, in southern and eastern ukraine. the ukrainian armed forces say they ve launched several attacks, but the russians insist those attacks have been repelled. russian officials are claiming that their troops have succeded in blocking attacks around donetsk, luhansk, and zaporizhzhia the ukrainian attack on donetsk was said 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 said to be moving forward strongly against russian positions. in a moment, we ll have the latest from moscow but first to kyiv, and our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse. shh. in a war of words, a call for quiet from kyiv. when it comes to its anticipated counteroffensive, ukraine has certainly revelled in trying to confuse russia. this video came with the caption plans love silence
at the port of dover uk authorities apologise, and say there ll be a review of plans ahead of the easter weekend let s return to some breaking news this hour and schools in england face fresh strikes this spring after members of the national education union rejected the government s pay offer. rejected the government s pay teachers have been gathering for the union s annual conference in harrogate, where pay and workload are among the issues being discussed. ministers say the pay offer is fair and reasonable . live now to our uk education editor branwen jeffreys who is in harrogate. bring us up to date. the government says the pay offer is fair but the unions do not agree. i says the pay offer is fair but the unions do not agree. unions do not agree. i have ust ste ed unions do not agree. i have ust stepped out fl unions do not agree. i have ust stepped out of i unions do not agree. i have ust stepped out of the i unions do not agree. i have just stepped out of the c
By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -Russia struck Ukrainian ports a day after pulling out of a U.N.-backed deal for safe Black Sea grain exports, and Moscow and Kyiv gave vastly different accounts of fighting in northeastern Ukraine on Tuesday. Russia said it hit fuel storage in Odesa and a plant making seaborne drones there, as…