MOSCOW, July 27. /TASS/. Russian air defenses have intercepted and destroyed 182 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over various Russian regions and the waters of the Azov and Black Seas since morning, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"Between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Moscow time (5:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. GMT), on-duty air defenses intercepted and destroyed 182 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over the regions of Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kostroma, Kursk, Oryol, Tula, Yaroslavl, and Udmurtia, as well as over the Moscow Region, the Republic of Crimea and the waters of the Azov and Black seas," the ministry said in a statement.