OREANDA-NEWS The Russian Defense Ministry reported that during the past night, from 20:00 Moscow time on Tuesday to 08:00 Wednesday, 596 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type were intercepted and destroyed by the air defense forces on duty.

According to the ministry, the drones were neutralized over the territories of Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Orel, Orenburg, Rostov, Samara, Tula, Ulyanovsk regions, Krasnodar Territory, Crimea and over the Black Sea.