"During the past night, from 11 p.m. Moscow time [20:00 GMT] on April 5 to 7 a.m. Moscow time [04:00 GMT] on April 6, air defense alert assets intercepted and destroyed 50 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the statement says.
The drones were shot down over the Belgorod, Bryansk, and Rostov regions, the Krasnodar Territory, and the waters of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.