MOSCOW, October 24. /TASS/. Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 616 Ukrainian drones overnight over Russian regions and the waters of the Azov and Black seas, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

"Over the past night (from 08:00 p.m. Moscow time on October 23 to 08:00 a.m. Moscow time on October 24), on-duty air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 616 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kirov, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Penza, Rostov, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tula, and Ulyanovsk regions, the Moscow region, the Republic of Crimea, the Republic of Tatarstan, and the Krasnodar Region, as well as over the waters of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea," the ministry said in a statement.