On Thursday 1 January, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, thanked Finland for its “swift and determined reaction”, which led to the arrest of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines-flagged cargo ship Fitburg and its 14 crew members on suspicion of damaging underwater cables in the Baltic Sea.
The ship, bound for Israel from Russia and carrying Russian steel under EU sanctions, is suspected of having damaged an undersea telecommunications...