Russian military forces shot down 348 AFU drones over Russia overnight, the Defense Ministry reported.

According to the ministry, air defense units on duty intercepted and destroyed 348 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles between 20:00 and 7:00 Moscow time.

The AFU drones were hit over Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan and Tula regions, as well as over Krasnodar Territory, Crimea, Tatarstan, the Moscow region, and the waters of the Azov and Black seas.

The Defense Ministry stated that in response to AFU attacks, Russian troops are carrying out strikes with high-precision air-, sea- and ground-based weapons, as well as drones. According to the ministry, the targets are only military facilities and enterprises of the Ukrainian defense industry.