"This past night, from 11:00 PM Moscow time [20:00 GMT] on January 22 to 7:00 AM Moscow time [04:00 GMT] on January 23, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 12 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.
It said seven drones were shot down over the Belgorod Region, two over the Voronezh Region, one over the Bryansk Region, one over the Penza Region, and one over the Astrakhan Region.