According to CoinMeta, on the 16th, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that its air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones over Russian airspace at night. The Russian Ministry of Defense said: "Overnight, the operational air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 822 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over the territories of Belgorod Oblast, Bryansk Oblast, Vladimir Oblast, Volgograd Oblast, Voronezh Oblast, Kaluga Oblast, Kursk Oblast, Lipeck Oblast, Lower Novgorod Oblast, Oryol Oblast, Rostov Oblast, Ryazan Oblast, Tambov Oblast, Tula Oblast, Moscow Region, Krasnodar Krai, the Crimea Republic, as well as the Black Sea and Azov Sea waters."