"During the night of September 28, air defense alert systems destroyed 41 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)," it said.
Twelve of these were destroyed over the Kursk region, 10 UAVs over the Bryansk region, eight over the Belgorod region, four over the Tula region, three over the Yaroslavl region, two over the Rostov region, and one each over Novgorod region and Samara region," the ministry added.