Orcas loaded onto trucks as Russia releases more from 'whale jail' Three orcas are loaded onto trucks at a controversial facility in Russia's Far East as the country continues to release the animals from what the media have dubbed "whale jail". The secluded facility near the town of Nakhodka contains dozens of killer and beluga whales which were caught to be sent to aquariums, but are now to be set free after a global outcry and intervention by President Vladimir Putin. of two orcas being loaded onto trucks