Russia intercepted and destroyed 245 Ukrainian aircraft-type drones over the country's regions and the Black Sea from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Moscow time (4:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. GMT), the Defense Ministry said, The Caspian Post reports, citing TASS.

"On June 24, between 7:00 a.m. Moscow time and 8:00 p.m. Moscow time, 245 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted and destroyed by on-duty air defense systems over the territories of Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, Oryol, Orenburg, Rostov, Ryazan, Tula, and Smolensk Regions, the Moscow Region, Krasnodar Region, Crimea, and over the Black Sea," it said in a statement.