Dolphins trained against intrusion by hostile divers. According to British intelligence, Russia recently increased protection of the Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol, using whales as guard animals, among other things. “The pictures show that the number of mammal enclosures in the port has almost doubled. They most likely contain dolphins. In the Arctic, the fleet also uses whales and seals. Russia uses trained animals for various tasks. “Those stationed in the port of Sevastopol are most likely there to repel enemy divers,” said the British 007 analysis, which shows satellite imagery of the port on the Russian-controlled peninsula.
The images “show an almost doubled number of floating mammal enclosures in the harbour, which are most likely to house bottlenose dolphins,” say British military intelligence experts. Russia has trained animals “for various missions, but the animals housed in the port of Sevastopol are most likely intended to thwart enemy divers.”
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Meanwhile, Ukrainian shelling in the southern part of the Russian-held Zaporizhia region killed one and wounded another. This was reported by the Moscow news agency Tass, indicating that the attack took place near the village of Novohorivka. Yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned of a possible Russian attack on the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.