"During the previous night, from 11:00 p.m. Moscow time [20:00 GMT] on November 16 to 7:00 a.m. Moscow time [04:00 GMT] on November 17, air defense alert systems intercepted and destroyed 36 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the statement says.
Fourteen of these were shot down over the Bryansk Region, eight over the Tambov Region, five over the Ulyanovsk Region, and four over the Voronezh Region.
In addition, three drones were destroyed over the Oryol Region, and one drone each was shot down over the Nizhny Novgorod and Tula regions.