Sabotage Suspected in Cutting of Undersea Cable, Finnish Police Say
The New York Times••world
Key Points:
- A cargo ship named Fitburg severed an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland, prompting Finnish police to seize the vessel on suspicion of sabotage.
- The incident occurred around 5 a.m. local time while the ship was traveling from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Haifa, Israel, damaging a cable connecting Helsinki and Tallinn.
- Finnish authorities are investigating the event as aggravated criminal damage and interference with telecommunications, though no foreign actor has been explicitly blamed.
- The cable cut did not disrupt service due to the network’s multiple-route design, but a second cable between Finland and Estonia also experienced an outage on the same day.
- This incident follows previous sabotage cases in the Baltic Sea region, including cable cuts in
