Russia claims to have shot down 290 Ukrainian drones overnight.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Defense press service, Russian air defense units shot down 290 Ukrainian drones overnight across the country's territory. The armed forces noted that Ukraine was using fixed-wing drones for these attacks.

The official statement covers the period between 8:00 p.m. Moscow time on October 25 and 9:00 a.m. on October 26. During those hours, 290 unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed.

The neutralization efforts spanned the capital region and fifteen other oblasts. The list includes the Kaluga, Novgorod, Bryansk, Rostov, Tula, Oryol, Volgograd, Lipetsk, Smolensk, Pskov, Kursk, Voronezh, Belgorod, Tver, and Ryazan regions.

More details may emerge as time passes.