Helsinki, Jan 4, 2026 (AFP) - Vessel coming from Russia dragged anchor before subsea cable damaged: Finnish police

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2026-01-04

The anchor of a vessel that damaged an undersea cable linking Helsinki and the Estonian capital Tallinn dragged along the seabed "at least several tens of kilometres" before it hit the line, Finnish police said Sunday. On December 31, police detained the Fitburg, a 132-metre-long (433-foot-long) cargo ship en route from St Petersburg, Russia, to Haifa, Israel, following suspicion that the ship's anchor had damaged the subsea cable in the Gulf of......

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