In a complex rescue operation involving U.S. experts, two Beluga whales were evacuated from an aquarium in war-torn Ukraine and moved to Spain. NBC News' Andrea Mitchell reports.
For a supposed spy, Hvaldimir was anything but covert. The white beluga whale had appeared regularly along the coast of Norway since first being spotted in the country’s north in April 2019, wearing a harness and what appeared to be a mount for a small camera. Together with a buckle that read “Equipment St. Petersburg,” that prompted speculation that the animal was an escaped “spy whale” that had been trained for military purposes in neighboring Russia.
An autopsy was being performed on Monday, the fisheries directorate said. Even as locals speculated that Hvaldimir might be on a clandestine mission for the Kremlin, Moscow never claimed the alleged Russian operative as its own. The military use of marine animals is well documented.
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