MOSCOW, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian military strikes have claimed the lives of nearly 8,500 civilians in Russia since February 2022, Russian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said at a briefing on Friday.

This screen capture from a video released by Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations on Dec. 30, 2023 shows rescuers working at the site of Ukrainian shelling attacks in Russian border city of Belgorod. (File photo: Xinhua)

From February 2022 to June 30, 2026, the total number of casualties reached 30,913, including about 8,434 fatalities, Miroshnik said.

Miroshnik said Ukrainian attacks had damaged civilian infrastructure across 42 Russian regions over the past three months. Citing several high-profile incidents, he highlighted an attack on a college in Starobelsk, an attack on a bus carrying Belarusian children in the Bryansk region, and an attack on a civilian passenger bus in Yenakiyevo.

Miroshnik also noted that a total of 373 children have been killed and 1,845 injured since 2014.

Russia has condemned Ukraine's strikes on civilian targets and delivered an official diplomatic note to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to call for an international probe into these incidents.