RT News - July 01 2022 (20:00 MSK)

Despair among Donetsk residents as the Ukrainian military shells civilian areas, while in the neighboring Lugansk Republic, Russian forces advance on the key city of Lisichansk. RT reports from the front lines. Despite emphatic claims that EU membership is within Kiev's reach, the European Commission cautions that Ukraine must first tackle its entrenched corruption. The UK wants to send another one billion pounds' worth of aid to Ukraine, taking that money from state funds for impoverished countries in Africa and Asia. That's as the activist charity OXFAM says the world's most powerful nations are leaving millions of people on the verge of starvation.