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Ukraine targets Moscow with 200 drones in large-scale attack, mayor says

This handout photograph taken and released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine on July 16, 2026, shows Ukrainian firefighters working to extinguish a fire at the site of a Russian air attack in Kyiv. (Handout/State Emergency Service of Ukrai)

(LONDON) — At least 200 Ukrainian drones were launched toward Moscow overnight into Thursday morning, the city’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said, as Kyiv continued its nightly long-range strike campaign deep into Russia.

From Wednesday evening until 9 a.m. local time on Thursday, “More than 200 drones were flying towards the Moscow region. Most of them were neutralized by air defense systems at a distance,” Sobyanin wrote in a post to Telegram. Ten drones “were destroyed as they approached Moscow,” the mayor said.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces downed at least 375 Ukrainian drones overnight. The ministry said in a post to Telegram that drones were intercepted over 18 Russian regions — including Moscow — as well as Crimea, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

Ukraine has been significantly expanding its drone campaign — referred to in Kyiv as “long-range sanctions” — in recent months, targeting major Russian cities, Russian oil infrastructure, military and logistics targets.

Ukraine has been significantly expanding its drone campaign — referred to in Kyiv as “long-range sanctions” — in recent months, targeting major Russian cities, Russian oil infrastructure, military and logistics targets.

The Russian Defense Ministry publishes only the number of Ukrainian drones and other projectiles it claims to have intercepted. Sobyanin releases real time statements when Ukrainian drones are reported shot down while heading toward the capital.

ABC News cannot independently verify the figures from either the ministry or the mayor. But the increasing scale and rate of such reports could be seen as indicative of Ukraine’s growing ability and willingness to target sites within Russia.

So far this year, Sobyanin has reported the downing of 1,420 Ukrainian drones on approach to Moscow, according to his Telegram posts, collated and analyzed by ABC News. Across all of 2025, Sobyanin only reported the downing of 734 Ukrainian drones near the city.

More than four years after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made clear Kyiv’s intentions to return the war back to Russian soil. Key targets have included Moscow and the so-called “second capital” St. Petersburg.

“Our responses to Russia’s prolonging of the war and strikes on our cities and communities are completely fair,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram in May. “The Moscow region has Russia’s densest concentration of air defenses. But we are getting through,” he added.

Ukraine’s Wednesday night attacks also reportedly targeted the Engels-2 airbase in Saratov — a key hub for Russian long-range aviation, including strategic bombers. Andriy Kovalenko, the head of the Counter-Disinformation Center operating as part of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said in a post to Telegram, “Engels is on fire.”

Russia’s federal air transport agency, Rosaviatsiya, meanwhile, announced that temporary flight restrictions were introduced at Saratov airport during the overnight attacks. Restrictions were also put in place at airports in Nizhny Novgorod, Penza, Samara, Ivanovo, Yaroslavl, Cherepovets and Gelendzhik.

Flights operating from all four of Moscow’s international airports were also put under temporary flight restrictions overnight, Rosaviatsiya said.

Russia continued its own long-range strike campaign against Ukraine. Ukraine’s air force said in a post to Telegram that Russia launched 18 missiles and 146 drones into the country overnight into Thursday morning, of which 12 missiles and 129 drones were intercepted, suppressed or failed to reach their targets.

Six missiles and 16 drones impacted across 15 locations, the air force said.

Zelenskyy said in a post to Telegram that at least two people were killed by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, with five other people injured. Other targeted regions included Kharkiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Mykolaiv and Donetsk, Zelenskyy said.

“Moscow is relying on terror through ballistic missiles and continues its attacks,” Zelenskyy wrote.

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ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on electrical shock gloves for agents

By CNN
(CNN) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and officers may soon be equipped with gloves that deliver electrical shocks, which the manufacturer says are intended to de-escalate encounters with individuals.ICE is planning to spend between an estimated $10 and $20 million to purchase the devices, known as CTG 5 G.L.O.V.E, which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, according to a notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security.The devices would be delivered by March 31, 2027, according to the contract previewed on DHS’ portal for forecasting contract opportunities. It’s unclear how many DHS intends to purchase, the cost per glove and when officers would begin using them.The notice comes as agencies enforcing immigration arrests face scrutiny over what critics call aggressive and dangerous tactics, and amid pressure from the Trump administration to make around 2,000 arrests a day.The DHS portal referred to the devices as “a Conductive Distraction and De-escalation Device which will be issued to Homeland Security Investigations (H.S.I.) and Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers and agents.”The Department of Homeland Security and the device manufacturer, Compliant Technologies LLC, did not immediately respond to CNN’s requests for comment.DHS told the Associated Press, which was first to report the story, that it was working on a response to its inquiry but had no immediate statement. Jeff Niklaus, the founder and CEO of Compliant Technologies, told AP by email that the company was unable to comment.Compliant Technologies markets the G.L.O.V.E as a “wearable de-escalation device” that can be shifted into electrical mode. According to a user manual for the CTG4 and 5 models on Compliant Technologies’ website, the gloves can deliver a maximum voltage of up to 380V that “inhibits/ distracts the subject from performing coordinated muscle movement.”The manual says no more than two gloves should be applied to a subject at one time and they should not be used for more than 15 seconds in many instances. If an incident occurs in which “the officer(s) or the public has become endangered,” it is suggested the gloves are used as necessary until “control and compliance” is gained, or to use a higher level of force.The gloves must come into direct contact with the skin and are not effective through clothing or hair, the user manual states.On its website, the company says the gloves are intended to “supplement existing tools for law enforcement, corrections, security, EMS and the military,” and called it an “’invisible partner’ to enhance the user’s effectiveness when operating within their agencies’ already established tactics, techniques and procedures.”The company warns the gloves should not be used as a “punishment” or on high-risk individuals including those who are pregnant, elderly people, small children and severely disabled individuals. The company also warns against deploying for “verbal defiance or belligerence.”Anyone who uses the gloves must be certified and recertified every other year to continue using them, according to the user manual.The DHS notice said the solicitation for a no-bid contract could be published as early as Friday.‘Compliance within three seconds’Similar devices have been used before in some law enforcement and corrections operations.In 2024, CNN affiliate KOKH reported the Oklahoma County Jail planned to begin using electric gloves produced by the same company, which could zap inmates at a rate of at least 210 volts.Compliant Technologies’ Oklahoma distributor, Justin Morris, said at the time the way the technology is used isn’t capable of causing injury.“We’re only grabbing enough motor units across the skin to stimulate the peripheral nervous system. Just the sensory portion of that. So, we don’t cause any injury with our device,” Morris said, according to KOKH, adding “we usually get compliance within three seconds.”John Peters, president of the Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Deaths, who is studying how the device has been used, told the AP that the feeling is “immediate and sharp, and it will distract you. I call it like a bee sting.”“If the officer is getting any type of resistance from the person, this is certainly an effective tool,” Peters said. “For smaller officers or weaker officers or older officers, I think it has a great advantage” because it can produce faster takedowns and shorten confrontations, he added.Oklahoma County Jail’s then-CEO told KOKH in 2024 that the device is ideal for her majority female staff.The devices have, however, also been used in prior incidents resulting in criminal charges, according to South Carolina’s The State newspaper, citing the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.In 2022, two corrections officers at the Laurens County Detention Center were charged in with beating and shocking an inmate with “a wearable G.L.O.V.E. stun device” in two separate incidents, according to SLED, the newspaper reported.Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center slammed the proposal to equip ICE officers and agents with the gloves.“This is a rogue agency with an $80 billion slush fund that allows them to concoct and fund new ways to visit cruelty upon our communities,” she told CNN, describing the possible arming of agents with the gloves as “disgusting and barbaric.”Civil rights advocates, including from the American Civil Liberties Union, also expressed alarm at the plan.Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, deputy project director on policing at the ACLU, told the AP the public should have no confidence that ICE officers will use the devices appropriately and she questioned why the devices would be necessary for civil immigration enforcement.“ICE spent the last year showing this country they are too quick to use force. Now they will be able to deploy electric shocks with the slight push of a button that maybe nobody else can see them do,” she said. “Introducing gloves that can so easily be used to deliver terrible pain in encounters is a recipe for harm to the public.”The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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