A Finnish court on Thursday jailed the Russian captain and an Azerbaijani crew member of the cargo ship Fitburg for aggravated sabotage over damage to two…
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gCaptain ·
A Finnish court on Thursday jailed the Russian captain and an Azerbaijani crew member of the cargo ship Fitburg for aggravated sabotage over damage to two subsea telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland last year.
Deutsche Welle ·
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.
Euronews ·
The Russian captain was ordered jailed for three years and six months and the crew member, an Azerbaijan national, for two years and 10 months.