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

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Finland seized the Fitburg freighter last year over the suspected sabotage of cables linking Helsinki and Tallinn. Covered by 3 outlets: 1 lean left, 1 are centre, 1 lean right.

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  1. The New York Times Left Factuality: Very high US
    Finland Sends 2 Men to Prison for Damaging Undersea Cable in Baltic Sea

    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.

  2. South China Morning Post Leans right Factuality: High HK
    Finland jails Russian cargo ship captain over Baltic Sea cable sabotage

    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. Finland on December 31 seized the vessel in the Gulf...

  3. ABC News (US) Leans left Factuality: High US
    Russian captain among 2 crew found guilty by Finnish court of damaging Baltic cables

    A Finnish court has convicted the captain and another crew member of a cargo ship of damaging undersea telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea last year

  4. DW News Center Factuality: Very high DE
    Finland court jails captain and crew member over Baltic cable sabotage

    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.

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