The 1st Company Group of Ukraine's 801st Combat Divers Center of the Ukrainian Navy has released a video showing the destruction of a russian unmanned boat that was approaching a Ukrainian port. An FPV drone was used to destroy the enemy unmanned boat.
Given recent russian attacks on commercial vessels entering Ukrainian ports in response to Ukrainian strikes on sanctioned oil tankers, it is likely that the unmanned naval drone was heading toward the port to target a commercial ship.
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The intensity of the explosion after the FPV drone strike also supports this assessment, suggesting the unmanned vessel may have carried a warhead designed for kamikaze-style naval attacks.
Regarding the type of unmanned boat used by russia, OSINT analyst H I Sutton has noted that similar drones were already seen in photographs as early as 2025. However, no details about its design or its name are known to date.
It is worth noting that in the published video showing the damage to the unmanned boat, a white rectangular object can be seen at the bow, in front of the cameras. Due to poor video quality, it is impossible to determine exactly what the object is.
However, in terms of its shape, it resembles a Starlink satellite communication terminal, which is typically used on unmanned boats for communication. If confirmed, this would leave two main hypotheses: that the terminal was removed from a Ukrainian drone and left active after use, or that it was acquired through recruited agents and registered under a "whitelist."
It is worth noting that this is not the first time the Ukrainian Armed Forces have succeeded in destroying russian unmanned boats. It is known that the first russian unmanned boat was destroyed in October 2025, and at the time it appeared to represent a new type of drone.
The threat posed by russian unmanned boats to the Ukrainian coastline is only growing over time. In February, russians announced that they had begun mass production of their fiber-optic drone carriers, which will pose a new threat to Odesa and Mykolaiv.
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