"This past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 121 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.
It said 20 drones were shot down over the Rostov Region, 19 over the Volgograd Region, 17 over the Bryansk Region, 12 over the Kaluga Region, 11 over the Smolensk Region, nine over the Belgorod Region, nine over the Moscow Region, eight over the Voronezh Region, eight over the Leningrad Region, two over the Novgorod Region, two over the Ryazan Region, two over the Tambov Region, one over the Tver Region and one over the Tula Region.