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.

KYIV (Reuters) -At least two people were killed and 52 wounded in a Russian air strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, local officials said early on Thursday. In a statement on Telegram, city military administrator Tymur Tkachenko said the death toll was likely to rise,