MOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/. Russian air defenses have taken down 27 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the Russian territory overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"Overnight, on-duty air defenses destroyed 27 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs: ten each in the Belgorod and Voronezh regions, two each in the Kursk and Lipetsk Regions, two over the Sea of Azov waters, and one over the Bryansk Region," the ministry said in a statement.