​​Ukrainian drone attacks overnight into Saturday killed three people, Russian officials said Saturday. Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted or destroyed 112 drones across eight Russian regions and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula.

Russia’s defence ministry said its air defence systems had destroyed 112 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory – 34 over the Rostov region – in a nearly nine-hour period, from Friday night to Saturday morning.

A series of drone attacks targeted industrial facilities in Russia's Ryazan, Penza, and Samara oblasts overnight on Aug. 2, according to local media and regional officials.