"During the past night, air defense systems on duty destroyed and intercepted 71 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles: 29 over the Bryansk Region, seven drones over the Kursk Region, five drones each over the Lipetsk and Smolensk regions, four each over the Oryol, Tver and Samara regions, three over the Republic of Crimea, one each over the Kaluga, Rostov and Tula regions, and seven drones were shot down over the Black Sea," the statement says.