Security services in both the USA and Europe do not seem to have found any evidence that the cable breaks that have occurred in the Baltic Sea in recent months are due to sabotage.
Instead, it appears to be a matter of accidents where poorly maintained vessels in Vladimir Putin's "shadow fleet" have had anchors dragged along the seabed by mistake.
The Washington Post has spoken to an official from one of the Nordic countries who has insight into the ongoing investigation.
We assumed that the "shadow fleet's" condition was poor, but it's worse than we thought, the official tells the Washington Post.
