According to a naval specialist, the dolphins could be tasked with stopping Ukrainian divers from penetrating the Sevastopol harbour underwater and sabotaging battleships there.
Russia appears to have outsourced maritime defence to a new mammal: dolphins, with its military manpower depleted by the battle in Ukraine.
According to an examination of satellite pictures by the commercial business Maxar and the US Naval Institute, Moscow has positioned trained dolphins at the entrance to a key Black Sea port, ostensibly to guard a naval facility from prospective Ukrainian strikes (USNI).
Dolphins were “the most obvious species of creature” being employed to protect the naval base in the Black Sea, according to Sutton. He went on to say that these were most likely the same pens that Russia utilised in Tartus, Syria, in 2018, to oppose enemy divers, collect stuff from the sea floor, and conduct espionage operations using dolphins.
Maxar Technologies, the company that provided the satellite imagery to NBC, stated it “agreed with the analytic evaluations given by our friends at the USNI.”
Despite the fact that Russia’s Sevastopol naval station is not the largest in the Black Sea, it is critical for the military due to its closeness to the Crimean Peninsula’s southern point, which Moscow annexed in 2014.
