"This past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 106 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.
It said 44 drones were shot down over the Belgorod Region, 22 over the Ryazan Region, 11 over the Rostov Region, 11 over the Voronezh Region, seven over the Kursk Region, four over the Tula Region, four over the Volgograd Region, one over Crimea, one over the Oryol Region, and one over the Lipetsk Region.