"During the night of June 8–9, on-duty air defence forces successfully intercepted and destroyed 49 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry's statement read.
According to the report, 13 drones were downed over the Kursk and Nizhny Novgorod regions, while 9 were intercepted in the Voronezh and Oryol regions. Additionally, 2 drones each were neutralized in the Bryansk region and the Chuvash Republic, and 1 drone was shot down in the Belgorod region.