Kyiv says Russia has struck Ukraine 40,000 times, Russia lists World Wildlife Fund as a foreign agent

Ukrainian soldiers and police officers provide first aid to a local resident injured by Russian shelling at a residential neighbourhood near Kostiantynivka on Friday. (AP: Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia has struck Ukraine more than 40,500 times since its invasion of the country last February, Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko says.

Speaking on national television on Saturday (local time), Mr Klymenko did not define what constituted a "strike", but said about 152,000 residential buildings and 400,000 public infrastructure facilities were destroyed in the attacks.