MOSCOW, November 1. /TASS/. Nearly 50 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russian regions during the day, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"From 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Moscow time (5:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. GMT), Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 47 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles ver the Belgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Kursk, Kaluga, Tula, Voronezh, Smolensk, Rostov, and Moscow Regions," it said.