According to Dr Shpak, Andruha/Hvaldimir had first been captured in 2013 in the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia's Far East. A year ...

Hvaldimir, the Russian military-trained beluga whale. (photo credit: Ein Dahmer is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Via: Wikimedia Commons) The mystery surrounding Hvaldimir, the beluga whale that ...

A white beluga whale wearing a harness is seen off the coast of northern Norway, April 29, 2019. File Photo/Reuters The mystery behind a beluga whale, rumoured to be a Russian spy, found off the coast ...

The tame beluga whale approached Norwegian fishermen in 2019, wearing a harness, leading to speculation that it was an escaped Russian "spy whale" [Norwegian Orca Survey] The mystery as to why a ...

The world-famous beluga whale thought to have been trained as a Russian spy and later found dead under fishy circumstances is now starring in his own documentary — which reveals his true identity.

Sola, Norway - The mystery of a whale ... Hvaldimir the beluga was discovered wearing a harness labeled "Equipment St. Petersburg," triggered concerns that it may have been a Russian spy.

The tame white whale, which locals named Hvaldimir ... own safety but said she had been told that when the beluga surfaced in Norway, the Russian marine mammal community immediately identified ...

The tame beluga whale approached Norwegian fishermen in 2019, wearing a harness, leading to speculation that it was an escaped Russian "spy whale" [Norwegian Orca Survey] The mystery as to why a ...

Nicknamed Hvaldimir - combining the Norwegian word for whale, hval, and Vladimir Putin 's first name - the body of the whale was found floating at the Risavika Bay in southern Norway in September.

A Beluga whale that was branded a Russian spy by some onlookers fled a training programme to guard a military base, a scientist has claimed. Hvaldimir, a whale that was found with a Russian harness ...

A beluga that was found wearing a harness off the coast of Norway five years ago may not have been a spy. Instead, it may have escaped the Russian military. Sola, Norway - The mystery of a whale found ...