MOSCOW, October 31 (HS/RIA Novosti) - Russian air defense forces on duty intercepted and destroyed 433 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

Over the past night, duty air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 433 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, the statement read.

The drones were shot down over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Kaluga, Tula, Oryol, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Smolensk, Tambov, Volgograd, Rostov, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, and Ulyanovsk regions, as well as the Republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, the ministry added.

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