"Over the past night, air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 76 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said in a statement.
The statement added that 33 drones were shot down over the Saratov Region, 17 over the Black Sea, 10 over Crimea, 9 over the Rostov Region, 4 over the Krasnodar Region, 2 over the Volgograd Region and one drone over the Astrakhan Region.