Russia's Defense Ministry reported that air defense systems shot down 179 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during the night connecting June 30 to July 1.
According to a statement from the ministry, the UAVs were detected and destroyed between 21:00 Moscow time on June 30 and 08:00 on July 1.
The statement said the downed UAVs were over the Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Penza, Rostov, Saratov, Samara, Tver, and Ulyanovsk regions, as well as the Krasnodar and Stavropol krais, Moscow region, Crimea, the Azov Sea, and the Black Sea.