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.

L ONDON and KYIV, Ukraine -- A Russian aerial strike that hit several residential buildings in Kyiv killed six people, including a 6-year-old boy, the head of the city's military administration said Thursday.

The article was updated after Kateryna Naralnyk's sister, Tamara, informed the Kyiv Independent after midnight that the son, daughter, and two grandsons were confirmed dead. All Kateryna Naralnyk saw was black smoke after a Russia ballistic missile hit her apartment building in Kyiv early on July 31.