MOSCOW, August 24. /TASS/. Over the past 24 hours, air defense systems of Russia’s Battlegroup South have shot down 99 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones and 122 heavy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the battlegroup’s spokesman, Vadim Astafyev, reported.

"The battlegroup’s air defense systems shot down 99 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles and 122 heavy rotor drones," he said.

Astafyev added that unmanned systems forces in the Kramatorsk and Slavyansk directions destroyed 54 enemy communication antennas and UAVs, as well as 37 ground robotic systems. Eighteen Ukrainian UAV control centers were hit, and 22 enemy drones were shot down.