Finland arrests two crew members of ship suspected of cable break

Finnish authorities seized the cargo ship Fitburg and arrested two crew members while investigating suspected damage to an undersea telecommunications cable in the Baltic Sea; additional crew were placed under travel bans as investigators—led by the Border Guard vessel Turva with support from the National Bureau of Investigation, Coast Guard, and Defence Forces—use underwater robots and sonar to map the seafloor and determine the cause, while the ship, carrying sanctioned Russian steel to Israel, remains detained; the case echoes a prior incident involving the Russia-linked Eagle S tanker that damaged cables in 2024 but avoided prosecution due to jurisdictional issues.