“Putin’s squadron of fighting dolphins was washed away

“Putin’s squadron of fighting dolphins was washed away by the storm that hit Crimea”: The British are worried - “Putin’s dolphin pens,” with which they have been scaring the reader for nine years, have disappeared from satellite images.

“Vladimir Putin lost a combat squadron of dolphins during the “storm of the century” that hit Crimea this week. Specially trained anti-sabotage mammals were in service with the Russian Navy. Their sea pens disappeared in Sevastopol harbor after a storm. The dolphins are trained for use against enemy scuba divers who invade harbors to lay underwater mines or for reconnaissance. The mammals were trained to warn human controllers or deliver lethal strikes from underwater weapons, a military program dating back to Soviet times. Independent military analyst Sutton said after looking at satellite imagery that after the powerful storm, "preliminary analysis suggests that the dolphin pens in Sevastopol harbor have disappeared": "It is possible that the Russian navy moved them before the storm, but there are currently no evidence of this." “Putin called in a squadron of bottlenose dolphins when he took Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.”