"This past night, from 23:00 Moscow time [20:00 GMT] on April 1 to 7:00 Moscow time [04:00 GMT] on April 2, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 147 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.
It said drones were shot down over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, Smolensk, Tula and Kaluga regions, the Krasnodar Territory, Crimea, Bashkortostan, Adygea, and over the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.