Russian Corvette Boikiy Likely Suffers Severe Superstructure Damage in Fire, Satellite Images Show

Satellite images of the damaged Russian Project 20380 corvette Boikiy have appeared online.

SkySat imagery obtained by Militarnyi shows smoke and signs of a large-scale fire on the ship’s superstructure.

On the morning of June 3, Ukrainian drones struck a Russian corvette at the Kronstadt naval base in St. Petersburg. At the time of the attack, the vessel was in the Veleshchinsky dry dock. The ship had undergone scheduled repairs in February 2026.

Video footage indicates that the corvette was hit by at least two Ukrainian strike drones. A fire subsequently broke out aboard the vessel, with smoke visible from several kilometers away, according to local residents who witnessed the attack.

To assess the possible consequences, it is worth comparing the incident with the December 17, 2021 fire aboard the Project 20385 corvette Provorny, a modified version of Project 20380. Following that fire, Russian authorities said restoration would take five years.

Project 20380 Corvette Boikiy

Boikiy is a multipurpose corvette of Project 20380 serving with the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy and is designed for operations in the near-sea zone.

The ship was laid down on July 27, 2005, in St. Petersburg. It was launched in April 2011 and commissioned in May 2013. Its home port is Baltiysk in Russia’s Kaliningrad region.

Boikiy is the third Project 20380 corvette and belongs to the Steregushchiy class. The vessel has a displacement of about 2,200 tons, a maximum speed of 27 knots, and an endurance of up to 15 days. Its crew consists of 100 personnel, including 14 officers.

The corvette is armed with a 100 mm A-190 naval gun, AK-630 30 mm close-in weapon systems, and the Redut air defense system. Its anti-ship capability is provided by the Uran missile system carrying eight Kh-35 anti-ship cruise missiles with a range of up to 260 km.

The vessel is also equipped with the Paket-NK anti-submarine warfare system, which includes two quadruple 324 mm torpedo launchers mounted on the ship’s sides. It can operate one Ka-27 helicopter.

Main characteristics of Project 20380:

• Displacement: 2,200 tons
• Length: 104.5 m
• Beam: 11.1 m
• Maximum speed: 27 knots
• Crew: 100 personnel

Armament:

• 1 × 100 mm A-190 naval gun
• 2 × 30 mm AK-630M close-in weapon systems
• 8 × Kh-35 anti-ship missiles
• 12 × 9M96M or 9M96E surface-to-air missiles
• 8 × 324 mm torpedoes

Embarked aviation assets:

• 1 × Ka-27PL helicopter and 1 × Orlan-10 UAV