According to the official, this is supported by the fact that a crack began to open in the drifting ice. He admitted that thanks to this, a pod of killer whales could have been saved.
“It is likely that they escaped,” he concluded after the animals could not be detected with binoculars on the morning of February 7.
The situation with killer whales off the coast of Hokkaido became known on February 6. It was reported that we are talking about a flock of 16-17 individuals. Later, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, reproached Western environmentalists for the lack of assistance to animals.