Russia has deployed trained dolphins at the entrance to a key port in the Black Sea, apparently to protect a naval base from potential Ukrainian attacks, according to a review of satellite images by the commercial firm Maxar and the U.S. Naval Institute.
Two transportable dolphin pens were moved to the Sevastopol harbor in February, around the time Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, according to analysis of the satellite images by H I Sutton, a submarine analyst who specializes in the use of marine mammal pens and wrote for the naval institute.
A spokesperson for Maxar Technologies, who provided NBC with the satellite imagery, said that he “agreed with the analytic assessments made by our partners at the USNI.” When Russia repossessed the area after annexation, it resumed the dolphins’ military training. In April 2019, the sighting of a beluga whale in a harness in Norway, with a camera and a clip reading “Equipment St. Petersburg,” pointed to the expansion of the program.
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