MOSCOW, May 3. /TASS/. Air defenses shot down 52 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions in four hours on Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

"On-duty air defenses intercepted and destroyed 52 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Smolensk, Tula and Moscow regions between 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Moscow time (5:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. GMT) on May 3," the statement reads.