Ukraine Demanding Return Of Combat Dolphins From Russia -- The Guardian
Trained to carry out military tasks, they were seized during the annexation of Crimea. Kiev wants them back – but Russia has plans for the cetaceans.
It 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 the choice of "defecting" to Russia or travelling to mainland Ukraine to continue serving Kiev.
The dolphins are still being held at an aquarium near Sevastopol, but Ukrainian authorities in a town across the isthmus from Crimea say they have a facility where the cetaceans could spend the rest of the summer before a new military home is found for them.
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