Moscow’s defence ministry said its alert systems had “intercepted and destroyed” the drones overnight, over half of which flew over the regions of Bryansk and Smolensk.
Leningrad governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said a fire had broken out on a vessel in the Port of Primorsk, a major facility on the Baltic Sea, but the blaze had been brought under control and there was no risk of an oil spill.
Moscow has denied targeting the country and said there was no evidence the drones were Russian.
Russia has targeted Ukraine with regular drone barrages as part of an ongoing offensive there.
NATO's eastern flank members that border Belarus -- Poland, Lithuania and Latvia -- are on high alert over the drills, held near Borisov, a town east of the capital Minsk.
Usually held every four years, the 2025 iteration of Zapad is the first during the conflict in Ukraine, and is to run until September 16.
But this year's Zapad is expected to be much smaller, since hundreds of thousands of Russian troops are deployed in Ukraine -AFP
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