MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/. Air defense forces destroyed and intercepted 35 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over Russian regions overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

"Over the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 35 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles: 18 UAVs over the territory of the Kursk region, four in each over the territory of the Oryol region and Krasnodar region, three in each over the territory of the Voronezh and Rostov regions, and one in each over the territories of the Bryansk, Tula regions and the Republic of Crimea," the report says.