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Russia has doubled its pens of trained dolphins near Ukraine to guard its ships from attack by enemy divers, UK intel says

A composite image showing the UK MOD's update and a dolphin.Twitter/UK Ministry of Defence; REUTERS/Mike Blake; Insider Russia has ramped up its trained dolphin force that protects its Black Sea fleet, UK intelligence said. Imagery shows the doubling of its pens of the animals, aimed at hampering Ukrainian divers, it said. Russia's navy has also used beluga whales and seals, the British Ministry of Defence said. Russia has significantly increased the number of pens containing trained dolphins near the strategic Black Sea port of Sevastopol, to help protect its naval forces, according to UK intelligence.Russia, which has a history of using marine animals in its military, has doubled the number of marine mammal pens in and around the Sevastopol harbor, the UK Ministry of Defence said in an intelligence update on Friday.The MOD described this as part of Russia's investments in "major enhancements to the security of the Black Sea Fleet's main base at Sevastopol" since summer 2022.Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and Sevastopol, a city and major port on the Black Sea, is in Crimea, a region of Ukraine that Russia annexed in 2014 and has controlled ever since.

 

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