During the past night, from 11 p.m. Moscow time [20:00 GMT] on January 17 to 7 a.m. Moscow time [04:00 GMT] on January 18, air defense alert systems intercepted and destroyed 63 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
A total of 23 drones were destroyed over the Belgorod Region, 13 over the Bryansk Region, and six each over the Rostov Region and the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. Additionally, four drones were intercepted over both the Astrakhan and Volgograd Regions, while two were taken down over the Kursk Region.
The statement also mentioned that one drone was destroyed over the Voronezh, Ryazan, Stavropol, and Crimea regions, as well as one over the Sea of Azov, the ministry said.