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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upended Olga Shpak’s life — and a generation of science.

Since the Second World War, both the United States and Russia have trained animals in underwater warfare. 

In the early 1960s, the U.S. Navy began training marine mammals to retrieve underwater objects and detect infiltrating swimmers

Norway caught one of their trained animals in the act: spying on NATO ships.

In fact, one of their trained animals actually got caught spying on NATO ships. Key point: Russia used dolphins and whales to spy on other navies. Here is how this secret came to light. On April 22, 2019 fishermen off the coast of northeastern Norway were approached by an unusually friendly beluga whale, as reported by Norwegian periodical NRK. The adorable pale white cetacean repeatedly rubbed against fishing boat hulls, attempting to dislodge a yellow harness on its back. This first appeare...