During the past night, from 8:00 p.m. Moscow time on October 3 to 8:00 a.m. Moscow time on October 4, air defense alert forces intercepted and destroyed 559 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type over the territories of the Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Rostov, Smolensk, Tula regions, the Moscow region, the Republic of Adygea, the Republic of Crimea, the Krasnodar Territory and over the waters of the Azov and Black Seas, - Russian Ministry of Defense