Two dolphin pens were moved to the Sevastopol harbor base in February, concluded the US Naval Institute’s review
Photograph: Raymond Roig/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Raymond Roig/AFP/Getty Imagesat its naval base in the Black Sea – possibly to protect its fleet from an underwater attack – according to new analysis of satellite images.
Ukraine had also trained dolphins at an aquarium near Sevastopol, in a program born out of a Soviet-era scheme that fell into neglect in the 1990s. The Sevastopol program was resurrected in 2012 by the Ukrainian navy, but the mammals fell into Russian hands after the 2014 invasion of Crimea. Ukraine unsuccessfully demanded the return of the animals, and RIA Novosti reported that Moscow planned to expand the scheme.
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