"Over the past night, air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 206 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said in a statement.
According to the statement, 40 drones were shot down over the Krasnodar Region, 35 over Crimea, 28 over the Stavropol Region, 18 over the Sea of Azov, 8 over the Kursk Region, 7 over the Black Sea.
In addition, 2 drones were destroyed over the Rostov Region.