"This past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 77 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.
It said 34 drones were shot down over the Volgograd Region, 23 over the Rostov Region, five over the Kaluga Region, five over Crimea, three over the Moscow Region, three over the Black Sea, two over the Belgorod Region, one over the Voronezh Region, and one over the Sea of Azov.