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Euromaidanpress
Euromaidan Press
30 Nov 2023
Olena Mukhina


Newsweek: Satellite images show Crimea lost naval defense line in storm

Satellite photos show that Crimea lost a naval defense line in a storm that battered the annexed Black Sea peninsula, Newsweek has reported.

According to Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) analyst MT Anderson who shared the satellite images of a harbor entrance in the port city of Sevastopol, the pens that held Russia’s specially trained dolphins deployed to protect its Black Sea Fleet and Crimea are “likely gone.”

In June 2023, UK intelligence said Russia doubled its floating mammal pens which included trained dolphins used to detect Ukrainian elite special forces divers and bolster Crimea’s Sevastopol naval base security.

Another OSINT and naval analyst H. I. Sutton also assessed that based on preliminary analysis, “the dolphin pens in Sevastopol harbor are gone as a result.”

“They may have been sunk or washed away. It is plausible that some or all of the trained dolphins have been freed,” Sutton said.

Russia has been actively fortifying Crimea fearing that Ukraine could reclaim the territory annexed in 2014.

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