"During the past night, from 20:00 Moscow time [17:00 GMT] on April 13 to 07:00 on April 14, air defense systems destroyed and intercepted 97 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.
According to the ministry, the drones were shot down over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, Lipetsk, Rostov and Tula regions, the Republic of Crimea, and the waters of the Sea of Azov.