"This night, from 11:00 PM Moscow time [20:00 GMT] on February 12 to 7:00 AM Moscow time [04:00 GMT] on February 13, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 58 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.
It said 43 drones were shot down over the Volgograd Region, 12 over the Rostov Region, two over the Kursk Region, and one over Crimea.