Ukraine Strikes Russian Warship in Caspian Sea Nearly 1,000 Kilometers From Front Line, Video

Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) said their drones struck a Russian Project 10410 patrol ship in the Caspian Sea port of Kaspiisk in Dagestan during overnight operations on May 16–17.

According to SBS commander Robert Brovdi, known by the callsign “Madyar,” Ukrainian drone units carried out 186 strikes against 46 Russian military targets in temporarily occupied Crimea, as well as the temporarily occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia regions over two nights.

Among the reported targets was a Project 10410 Svetlyak-class border patrol ship located in Kaspiisk, Dagestan. Brovdi said the vessel had been used by Russia for patrol missions and counter-air operations in the region.

Footage released by Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces showed an FP-1 strike drone approaching and hitting the patrol vessel near the stern section while the ship appeared to be engaging aerial targets.

Russian military monitoring channels analyzing footage of the strike claimed the drone hit “directly from the side of the stern automatic artillery mount AK-630, which, judging by the heating of the barrel block, had recently fired,” suggesting the vessel may have been actively attempting to repel incoming drones at the time of the attack.

The Project 10410 Svetlyak is a Soviet-designed patrol vessel introduced in the 1990s. The class is armed with a 76 mm naval gun, AK-630 close-in weapon systems, and short-range air defense weapons. Russia’s Caspian Flotilla operates several ships of this type from Kaspiisk.

Kaspiisk, located on Russia’s Caspian coast in Dagestan, hosts the headquarters of the Russian Caspian Flotilla. The distance from Ukrainian-controlled territory to the target area is estimated at roughly 1,000 kilometers or more depending on the flight route.

Earlier the same night, Ukrainian long-range drones carried out one of the largest strikes of the war against targets deep inside Russia, reportedly hitting facilities linked to Russia’s defense industry, fuel infrastructure, and microelectronics sector, including sites in the Moscow region.

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