United Shipbuilding Corporation
Initial reporting said that these ships would enter service in 2023-2025. In January 2018 however it was reported that detailed design phase will start after 2020 and construction in 2025. On 18 April 2020 Russian newspaper "Interfax" reported that the Severnoye Design Bureau had suspended development on the "Lider". However, in June Alexei Rakhmanov, head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, reported that the Lider project was still moving forward.