"This past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 103 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.
It said 26 drones were shot down over the Belgorod Region, 20 over the Rostov Region, 19 over Crimea, 11 over the Ryazan Region, 11 over the Krasnodar Territory, five over the Voronezh Region, four over the Lipetsk Region, three over the Kursk Region, one over the Astrakhan Region, one over the Volgograd Region, one over Kalmykia and one over the Sea of Azov.