"Over the past night, air defence alert systems intercepted and destroyed 114 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the statement said.
According to the ministry, 25 drones were downed over both the Rostov Region and Krasnodar Territory, 19 over the Belgorod Region, and 13 over the Astrakhan Region.
In addition, 10 drones were neutralised over Crimea, seven over the Bryansk Region, five over the Sea of Azov, three each over the Yaroslavl and Volgograd Regions, two over the Black Sea, and one each over the Kursk and Voronezh Regions.