Finnish court jails captain and crew member for 'aggravated criminal damage' over Baltic cable sabotage

Deutsche Welle · Natalie Muller · 2026-11-05 10:31 UTC

Finland seized the Fitburg freighter last year over the suspected sabotage of cables linking Helsinki and Tallinn. It's one of several incidents of damaged infrastructure in the Baltic since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Finland court jails captain and crew member over Baltic cable sabotage

November 5, 2026

A Finnish court on Thursday convicted the Russian captain and a senior crew member of the cargo ship Fitburg for damaging two undersea telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland last year.

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