"—same smoke, same Tuesday, and not one new idea in the wretched thing."

The night clerk at a Tallinn drone works said it while logging the August fire. The firm supplies Ukraine. Estonia has filed the blaze as episode six of a sabotage serial it blames on Moscow's security services.

Russia's chargé d'affaires was summoned on Tuesday, after Margus Tsahkna called such attacks unacceptable. There was no new speech. A clerk set six drone batteries in a row and wrote episode six on a blank card. He added the date 2007, and did not say why that year still smelled of smoke.

European and Nato leaders expressed full support, then went quiet. The chargé offered a new ending. Tallinn replied that they had seen the new ending, and that one had caught fire too.