MOSCOW, November 18. /TASS/. Air defense forces shot down 31 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

"Over the past night, air defense alert systems intercepted and destroyed 31 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles: 10 UAVs were shot down over the Voronezh and Tambov regions, three over the Rostov and Yaroslavl regions, two over the Smolensk region, and one each over the Bryansk, Kursk, and Oryol regions," the Defense Ministry reported.