MOSCOW, December 15. /TASS/. Twenty-six Ukrainian drones were shot down over Crimea, the Russian defense ministry said.

"From 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Moscow time (5:00-7:00 p.m. GMT) on December 15, the Kiev regime’s attempted terrorist attack on facilities in Russia’s territory with the use of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles was thwarted. Twenty-six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over the Crimean Peninsula," it said.