Trained to carry out military tasks, they were seized during the annexation of Crimea. Kiev wants them back but Russia has plans for the cetaceansIt wasn’t just the miles of gorgeous coastline, the plush dacha compounds of the Soviet elite and the naval bases of the Black Sea Fleet that Russia acquired when it annexed Crimea this year; it was also Ukraine’s combat dolphins, part of a secret programme that trains sea mammals to carry out military tasks.Now, however, Ukraine is demanding the return of the dolphins, who unlike the naval officers serving on the peninsula, were not given …read more
Source: The Guardian
