"During the past night, from 23:05 Moscow time on 7 September this year to 03:00 Moscow time on 8 September this year [20:05 to midnight GMT Sunday], air defence alert systems intercepted and destroyed seven Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," it said.
Three of the drones were shot down over the Tula region, two over the Smolensk region, one over the Bryansk region and one over the Ryazan region, the ministry specified.