Russia and Ukraine said they shot down dozens of drones overnight, while both countries carried out nighttime attacks on targets behind front lines.
Drones - packed with explosives or with advanced surveillance cameras - have been used extensively during the two-year war between Russia and Ukraine.
The Air Force of Ukraine announced that Russia sent 37 kamikaze drones of the Shahed type - Iranian production - and three missiles to Ukrainian territory during the night.
"As a result of combat operations, 33 Shaheda were shot down in the regions of Kirovohrad, Odessa, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv," the message of the Air Force in Telegram states.
In Moscow, the Ministry of Defense announced that it had intercepted 16 Ukrainian drones in the early hours of Friday morning.
About 15 of them were destroyed over the southern region of Volgograd, which is the closest region to the front lines in eastern Ukraine at a distance of about 300 kilometers.
Another drone was shot down over the border region of Belgorod, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced.
Belgorod has seen dozens of shelling and airstrikes since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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