
(FILES) This file photo shows the seized vessel Fitburg moored at the harbour in Kirkkonummi, Finland, on January 1, 2026. Finland on June 15, 2026 charged the Russian captain and a senior crew member of a ship suspected of damaging two subsea cables linking Finland and Estonia on New Year's Eve, authorities said. The Fitburg, a 132-metre-long (433-feet-long) cargo ship en route from Russia to Israel, was stopped by Finnish authorities on December 31, 2025 following suspicions that the ship's anchor had damaged the two telecoms cables in the Gulf of Finland. The incident is one of several instances of suspected cable sabotage in the Baltic Sea viewed by many experts and politicians as part of Russia's "hybrid war" against Western countries, at a time of high tensions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roni Rekomaa / Lehtikuva / AFP via Getty Images) / Finland OUT


