MOSCOW, August 23. /TASS/. Air defenses destroyed 10 Ukrainian drones in the skies over three Russian regions on Friday evening, Russia's Defense Ministry said in a statement.

"Between 8:50 p.m. Moscow time (GMT +3) and midnight on August 22, air defenses on duty destroyed 10 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, four each over the Rostov and Krasnodar regions, and two over the Belgorod Region," the statement reads.