"This past night, from 11:00 PM [20:00 GMT] on February 19 to 7:00 AM [04:00 GMT] Moscow time on February 20, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 149 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.
It said 57 drones were shot down over the Bryansk Region, 28 over the Black Sea, 24 over the Sea of Azov, 20 over Crimea, 17 over the Krasnodar Territory, two over the Rostov Region, and one over the Belgorod Region.