"During the past night from 20:00 [17:00 GMT] on August 9 to 06:10 Moscow time [03:10 GMT] on August 10, air defense alert systems destroyed and intercepted 121 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," it said.
Twenty-nine of them were shot down over the Krasnodar Krai, 15 over the Republic of Crimea, 13 over the Bryansk region, 12 over the Belgorod region, nine over the Voronezh region, eight over the Saratov region, eight over the Stavropol Krai, seven over the Kaluga region, six over the Tula region, five over the Rostov region, four over the Ryazan region, two over the Sea of Azov, one over the Smolensk region, one over the Oryol region, and one over the Tver region, the ministry added.