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Finland Sends 2 Men to Prison for Damaging Undersea Cable in Baltic Sea

New York Times5 November 2026, 13:06 UTCFinland

A Finnish court convicted the captain and boatswain of a cargo ship of aggravated criminal damage in relation to an incident last year in the Gulf of Finland.

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