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The 132-meter Fitburg, flagged in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, was seized on New Year's Eve and held until mid-January while a joint Finnish and Estonian investigation team examined the vessel, the damage site, and devices belonging to crew members. The ship's 14 crew came from Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan.
Damage to the cables occurred in Estonia's exclusive economic zone, with Finland investigating the case as aggravated criminal damage, attempted aggravated criminal damage, and aggravated interference with telecommunications. Finnish customs separately determined that the ship's steel cargo was subject to sanctions against Russia, though no criminal case was opened over it because the goods only entered Finnish waters after authorities ordered the vessel to move.
Elisa said at the time that rerouting kept its services running, consistent with earlier Baltic cuts that Cloudflare found had little observable effect on connectivity thanks to dense route redundancy in the region.
This marks the second time in a year that the Fins have referred a case to prosecutors, having previously charged three officers of the Eagle S oil tanker last August with aggravated sabotage and aggravated interference with telecommunications, alleging the Cook Islands-registered tanker dragged its anchor about 56 miles along the seabed and damaged five cables. Repairs cost two Finnish companies roughly $70 million. The Eagle S is widely described as part of Russia's "shadow fleet" of tankers operating under foreign flags to evade sanctions.
Finland deploys new system to detect threats to undersea cables
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