"This past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 117 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.
It said 27 drones were shot down over the Bryansk Region, 16 over the Volgograd Region, 15 over the Kursk Region, 15 over Crimea, 11 over the Rostov Region, 10 over the Voronezh Region, eight over the Belgorod Region, six over the Leningrad Region, four over the Kaluga Region, two over the Novgorod Region, two over the Black Sea, and one over the Smolensk Region.