MOSCOW, January 2. /TASS/. Russian air defenses intercepted and destroyed 64 Ukrainian drones over the past night, the Russian Ministry of Defense said.

Twenty fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles were downed in the Saratov Region, the ministry said. Eight drones were destroyed in each of the Voronezh and Saratov Regions, seven drones in the Moscow Region, six drones in each of the Ryazan and Rostov Regions, three drones in the Tula Region, two drones in the Belgorod Region, and one drone in each of the Kursk, Penza, Kaluga and Tambov regions, it added.