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Ukrainian Drones With Fibre-Optic Cables Have 41km Range
(www.technology.org)
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Having a hard time imagining commercial grade optic wire a quarter of a mm think surviving things like a mildly stiff breeze against some bushes or tree branches.
I suppose unless you're at the very end of the length of it, it can probably account for that to some degree by just letting more fibre out. This paper (which I have only skimmed, so sorry if I've got this wrong) seems to say that fibres even thinner than that β 0.15 mm β can handle a force equivalent to a couple of kilograms hanging off of them