"This past night, from 23:00 [20:00 GMT] on March 26 to 7:00 [04:00 GMT] on March 27 this year, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 85 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.
It said the drones were shot down over the Bryansk, Leningrad, Vologda, Smolensk, Belgorod, Kursk, Pskov regions, the Black Sea, Crimea, and the Moscow Region.