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Sign at Hammerfest Harbour in Norwegian and English warning against interfering with Hvaldimir. The whale appeared beginning on 26 April 2019 north of Hammerfest, off the island of Ingøya and near the village of Tufjord on the island of Rolvsøya, wearing a tight-fitting camera harness labelled "Equipment St. Petersburg", and rubbing against boats in apparent attempts to free himself.
The whale, called Hvaldimir (a combination of the Norwegian word for whale — hval — and the first name of Russian President Vladimir Putin) gained public attention in the country in 2019 when ...
Hvaldimir, a white beluga whale that was rumored to be a Russian spy, has been found dead in waters off Norway. Beloved Russian 'spy' whale, who was anything but covert, is found dead off Norway ...
Nicknamed "Hvaldimir" in a pun on the Norwegian word for whale, hval, and its purported ties to Moscow, the white beluga first appeared off the coast in Norway's far-northern Finnmark region in 2019.
A white beluga whale wearing a harness is seen off the coast of northern Norway, April 29, 2019. ... said it knows little about the beluga whale's past and can't confirm whether Russia captured ...
Attacks on belugas by killer whales have been reported in the waters of Greenland, Russia, Canada and Alaska. [ 172 ] [ 173 ] A number of killings have been recorded in Cook Inlet, and experts are concerned the predation by killer whales will impede the recovery of this sub-population, which has already been badly depleted by hunting. [ 172 ]
Hvaldimir, the beluga whale and alleged Russian spy, was killed by gunshots, animal rights groups OneWhale and NOAH said Wednesday amid an autopsy.
On 25 September, the Special Operations Forces Command of Ukraine's Armed Forces said that 34 Russian officers, including Sokolov, were killed and 105 soldiers injured in the attack. [29] Ukrainian partisan group Atesh later claimed that they provided information used to plan the attack. They reportedly gained leaked information about the Black ...