{"id":665382,"date":"2025-12-31T20:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665382\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:26:11","slug":"finland-seizes-cargo-ship-from-russia-over-suspected-cable-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665382\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland seizes cargo ship from Russia over suspected cable sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They have been on high alert after a string of outages of power cables, telecoms links, and gas pipelines that run along the relatively shallow seabed since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>NATO has boosted its presence in the Baltic with frigates, aircraft, and naval drones in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>An official at the military alliance said they remain in contact with Finnish authorities via the NATO shipping centre located at the Allied Maritime Command in Northwood, UK.<\/p>\n<p>The Fitburg was dragging its anchor in the sea and was directed to Finnish territorial waters, the police and Finland&#8217;s Border Guard said. The cable belongs to Finnish telecoms group Elisa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They have been on high alert after a string of outages of power cables, telecoms links, and gas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[7503,203066,1112,299,769,203065,2307,203063,13561,2821,203064,332,7661,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-665382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-azerbaijan","9":"tag-eagle-s","10":"tag-estonia","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-finland","13":"tag-finnish-border-guard","14":"tag-georgia","15":"tag-gulf-of-finland","16":"tag-kazakhstan","17":"tag-nato","18":"tag-nato-allied-maritime-command","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","21":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115816063681114956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}