"This past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 106 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.
It said 24 drones were shot down over the Belgorod Region, 21 over the Bryansk Region, 19 over the Voronezh Region, 13 over the Tambov Region, nine over the Nizhny Novgorod Region, five over Crimea, four over the Sea of Azov, three over the Rostov Region, two over the Lipetsk Region, one over the Kursk Region, one over the Tula Region, one over the Smolensk Region, one over the Volgograd Region, one over the Krasnodar Territory, and one over the Black Sea.