The Stěreguščij-class Bojkij corvette was in dry dock at the time of the attack on Wednesday night, where it was being repaired, the Schemi server reported on its Telegram account.
The Ukrainians hit the vessel, which in 2025 escorted ships of the Russian shadow fleet across the English Channel, in the middle of the hull, near the bridge and the structure of the tower and mast. According to the Defense Express portal, the key electronic equipment of the corvette is located in these places, namely the surveillance radar, radar for targeting missiles, navigation radars, the electronic warfare system and the artillery control station.
Drones hit the Russian corvette Bojkij in Kornstadt.Video: Ukrainian Army, News
After the intervention, the roof of the bridge probably collapsed. Defense Express attributes this to impact and fire – the ship’s structure was made of composite materials. The portal reveals that the greatest damage to the corvette equipped with anti-ship missiles, anti-aircraft systems and torpedoes was caused by the flames. “Fires on ships are extremely destructive as flames spread through cables, ventilation ducts and inter-deck spaces,” Defense Express explained.
Russian air defense over the Leningrad region surrounding St. Petersburg shot down five dozen drones on Wednesday night. According to Russian media, drones hit an oil transfer station in St. Petersburg on the day that the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) opened, at which Russian leader Vladimir Putin will speak. Part of the city was covered in black smoke. Nevertheless, Putin is scheduled to come to St. Petersburg on Friday and give a big speech at the forum.
A patrol boat is also in ruins
On Thursday night, Ukrainian drones also hit the Russian border patrol ship of the class 10410 Světljak, which was located at sea near the settlement of Jurkine in occupied Crimea. According to the commander of the unmanned systems units of the Ukrainian army, Robert “Hungarian” Brovdi, such vessels, equipped, among other things, with 16 sets of portable Igla air defense systems, are used to control and protect ports and vessels and in anti-aircraft and anti-submarine defense.
On the night of Thursday, Ukrainian drones destroyed the Pancir-S1 anti-aircraft complex in the Strilkovo locality in the Kherson region and the RSBN-4N short-range navigation system in the Sak region of occupied Crimea.
According to the newspaper Ukrainska pravda, locomotives in Vladislavivka and Rozdolny in Crimea, transformers in Bulavynskyi and Vuhlehirskyi districts in the occupied part of the Donetsk region, as well as tanks with fuel and lubricants in Makijivka were also attacked by drones.
