Subsea Cable Sabotage Fitburg Exclusive Economic Zone Gulf of Finland Helsinki District Court
On November 5, 2026, the Helsinki District Court convicted Andrei Maksimenko, the Russian captain of the general cargo vessel Fitburg, and Vusal Majidov, its Azerbaijani boatswain, of aggravated criminal sabotage for deliberately severing undersea telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland.
A good outcome too much of this going on and to make a statement about how important these cables are.