Guido Olimpio - Corriere della Sera
Every conflict has its dark side, mysteries, triple truths and the murder of Daria Duginas is part of a scenario where everything is valid.
Meanwhile, there is history. Assassinations and ambushes have become constant in the confrontation between the two nations since the Cold War.
With nationalists killed abroad, using poisons and paratroopers behind the lines on missions with little chance of survival.
There is room for clandestine activities, but also for quarrels and internal provocations.
The first can act as a screen for the rest. Ilya Ponomariev, a former Duma deputy, critic of the Kremlin and living in Kiev, pointed to the footprints of a Russian anti-Putin group, the National Republican Army. He adds: "Other movements will follow. A hypothesis that needs feedback, like the others".
The Ukrainians have shown they can organize sabotage, episodes that have increased since the beginning of the crisis, with a combination of special forces and partisan attacks on Russian territory and occupied areas.
Profession, money, complicity help to go far. Like their rivals.
Moscow's secret services are suspected of causing explosions in weapons factories abroad - for example in the Czech Republic in 2014 - warehouses from which weapons were shipped to Ukraine.
Event with many conditions. That they continue. On Saturday, two Russians and a Ukrainian were arrested while trying to enter an old military facility in Albania.
After being discovered, they used nerve gas and injured two soldiers of the arms factory in Gramsh.
History to decipher. How can we decipher what happened in the Ukrainian region of Kirovohard, where the head of local intelligence Oleksandr Nakonechny was killed with a single bullet.
A crime that follows tumultuous weeks for Zelenskiy's agents, with several key executives removed to report personal or political settling of scores. And this is related to the "climate" of Moscow.
Dugins represent targets of symbolic value, megaphones of nationalism, controversial figures, ideal for "separating" the dead and the living.
The attack - whoever the culprit - represents a flaw in the circle of defense. It raises suspicions, it could trigger a traitor hunt, because someone has managed, if true, to plant explosives in the SUV.
Prevention rules have failed. Or they just thought no one would dare touch them and didn't adopt them.
They say that the SUV was not supervised. Therefore, the killers have combined opportunities and targets.
Remarkable are the similarities in the Israel-Iran duel, with scientists and generals killed in undeclared operations. A game defined as a secret that unfolds, however, for all to see.
They are deep wounds, an embarrassment for the Kremlin: it is failing to protect Crimea and it is witnessing an attack on a personality known even abroad with a margin of denial.
Attacking with a kamikaze drone, masked assassins, toxic substances in food, or a bomb placed under the car allows the attackers to keep a distance from the attack.
Sufferers, on the other hand, can decide which thesis to follow. In fact, the Donbas separatists immediately accused Ukraine, while some observers did not rule out the provocation, the maneuver to get radical changes using Darya's death.
This is why it is a "beloved" instrument of war at certain stages.
It allows you to act freely, destabilize and hide your hand. At the same time, by repeating similar acts and implying that there is involvement, the opponent is also authorized to make accusations.
Even if it is a foreigner. The same applies to Kiev, which alludes to karma and fire when it erupts in Russia, and to Moscow, which has liquidated its opponents abroad.
Any real or alleged involvement of Ukrainians could cause a chain reaction.
The Russians will seek their revenge, the battlefield expands, representatives of opposing structures end up in question.
In reality they already were - just think of the alarms about Zelenskiy protected by a triple shield - but the elimination of Duginas exposes them even more.