Finland Jails Captain and Crew for Baltic Cable Sabotage

• A Finnish court jailed a Russian captain and an Azerbaijani crew member for aggravated sabotage.
• The Fitburg freighter was seized last year for damaging cables linking Helsinki and Tallinn.
• The sabotage is one of several incidents of damaged infrastructure in the Baltic since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
• The court found the crew guilty of damaging two subsea telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland.
• The Fitburg was seized in November 2022 over the suspected sabotage.