[Russia] - Russia Training Dolphins to Defend Black Sea Fleet Against Divers, U.K. Says

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
mammals for military purposes such as planting explosives on ships or searching for mines
Whether they actually engaged in military activity is disputed, but the dolphins were later used to locate lost military and scientific
equipment.The Russian Navy denied a 2012 report saying it was developing a program training dolphins to attack enemy divers with knives or
pistols attached to their heads
The Soviet program was also thought to have included training on how to kill underwater enemies.Bottlenose dolphins, the best-known and most
said Friday that, since the summer of 2022 when the Black Sea Fleet wasmauled in the first 200 days since Moscow ordered troops to invade
harbor as Russian-installed authorities moved to fortify Crimea following a series of attacks on military, energy and transport targets
there.