The death toll from Russia’s heavy bombardment of Ukraine’s capital this week has risen to 31 people, marking the deadliest single attack on Kyiv in a year, Ukrainian officials said on Friday.

Ukrainian rescuers recovered more than a dozen more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed apartment block in Kyiv overnight, bringing the death toll from Russia's worst air strike of the year on Ukraine's capital to 31.

Two sisters, Alina and Anastasiia Humeniuk, and their mother Iryna were killed in a Russian strike on Kyiv on the night of 30-31 July. Source: a Facebook post by Lyceum No. 13, a specialised secondary school in the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv,