A British aid worker has been killed in a Russian drone strike, Ukrainian police have said.

Annie Lewis Marffy, 69, travelled from her home in Silverton, near Exeter, Devon, in late May to deliver a green Toyota Rav4 packed with supplies.

She arrived in Ukraine on June 4 but did not meet co-ordinators from Aid Ukraine UK, the non-profit NGO which had organised the mission, as planned.

After a week of searching for Ms Lewis Marffy, the organisation was contacted by the Kramatorsk district police department with information that she had been killed.

The police report says that she sustained “injuries incompatible with life” after a Russian drone strike between June 11 and 12, having parked her car on a street in the Donbas region.

It adds that her body “remains in an area of active hostilities, making it impossible to conduct evacuation measures to transfer the body to the forensic medical examination department”.

Her family have asked for a death certificate to be issued, based on the Kramatorsk district police department report, either through local authorities or the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

Ms Lewis Marffy travelled through Europe with a former soldier from Wales, who had to return to the UK after becoming unwell in Poland.

She was instructed to hand the vehicle over to Aid Ukraine teams in Lviv but did not do so, instead insisting she would continue to Kramatorsk, where the vehicle was due to be delivered, alone.

After that, she was in sporadic contact with co-ordinators from the organisation and ignored advice to avoid frontline areas, leading them on a “wild goose chase” for the next week.