A court in Finland has found the captain and a crew member of the cargo ship Fitburg guilty of damaging undersea telecommunications cables connecting Helsinki and Tallinn.
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A court in Finland has found the captain and a crew member of the cargo ship Fitburg guilty of damaging undersea telecommunications cables connecting Helsinki and Tallinn.
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. 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 English reported the story as "Finland court jails captain and crew member over Baltic cable sabotage." The Independent reported the story as "Russian captain among 2 crew found guilty by Finnish court of damaging Baltic cables." South China Morning Post reported the story as "Finland jails Russian cargo ship captain over Baltic Sea cable sabotage."
3 sources have covered this story, including South China Morning Post, The Independent and Deutsche Welle English. The earliest reporting in the cluster landed about 1 hour ago.
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