- Ukraine is mounting rockets onto its naval drones, an official told the Financial Times.
- It's used them to strike Russian positions in occupied Mykolaiv, the official told the FT.
- A video of a reported attack shows a sea drone firing several rockets toward Russian targets.
Ukraine has placed rockets onto its feared sea drones and is using them to attack Russian land targets, according to a Ukrainian official.
In a post on X, citing an unnamed Ukrainian intelligence official, Christopher Miller, the Financial Times' Ukraine correspondent, said that sea baby naval drones are now being mounted with a Grad multiple launch rocket system.
The official said that they'd been used to strike Russian positions on the Kinburn Spit in the occupied Mykolaiv region on Monday.
An unnamed security source seemed to confirm the upgrade and the attack to the Kyiv Independent.
"This technological solution is already showing powerful results," the source told the outlet.
"So new surprises await the enemy," they added.
The Security Service of Ukraine didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
But a video shared by Russian and Ukrainian sources showing a naval drone firing several rockets appeared to back up the reports.
According to Anton Gerashchenko, a former advisor to Ukraine's internal affairs ministry, who shared the footage on X, the video shows an unmanned surface drone "launching missiles" at Russian positions near the Kinburn Spit.
The Ukrainian military website Militarnyi reported that the video shows a Ukrainian unmanned boat mounted with an MLRS firing at least six shells at Russian positions.
In a post of its own, Ukraine's Defense Ministry said that sea baby drones were equipped with "Grad" rocket launchers and that they had become "even deadlier" for the Russian fleet.
Business Insider couldn't independently verify the time or location of the video.
Ukraine has frequently deployed its naval drones over the course of the war, outfitting them with larger warheads and using them to devastating effect against Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
The Kyiv Independent reported that six of them took part in what may be Ukraine's biggest sea drone attack last week, with targets including the two major Russian naval ports of Sevastopol and Novorossiysk.
Ukraine previously used sea drones fitted with missiles to attack Russia's Black Sea Fleet in January, and with what appeared to be heat-seeking missiles to strike Russian naval assets earlier this month.