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Finland court jails captain and crew member over Baltic cable sabotage

DW5 November 2026, 10:31 UTCFinland

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.

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