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.

Ukraine's capital city observed a day of mourning on Friday after a Russian missile and drone barrage on Thursday killed 31 individuals, including five children, and injured over 150 others, in the deadliest attack on Kyiv in more than a year.

Russian drones and missiles hit Kyiv in a barrage killing 31 and collapsing an apartment block. Three dead were children, ages 3, 6, and 17. About 159 injured.