"During the past night, from 20:00 [17:00 GMT] on April 30 to 07:00 Moscow time [04:00 GMT] on May 1, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 141 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.
It said drones were shot down over the Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Rostov, Kaluga, Smolensk regions, the Moscow Region, the Krasnodar Territory, Crimea, and over the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.