MOSCOW, March 23. /TASS/. Air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 249 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

In the port of Primorsk in the Leningrad Region, a fuel tank was damaged, causing a fire. An apartment was damaged as a result of drone fragments hitting a multi-story building in Zubtsov, Tver Region.

TASS has compiled the main information about the impact.

- Air defense assets on duty intercepted and destroyed 249 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over Russian regions during the past night, the Defense Ministry reported.

- According to the department, UAVs were shot down over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Kaluga, Kursk, Leningrad, Novgorod, Pskov, Smolensk, Tver, Tula Regions, the Moscow Region, and the waters of the Sea of Azov.