That's the thing, see. A bullet. It is known he was murdered.

Somewhere in the Kremlin someone is thinking that this was entirely without style. So blunt. Barbarous. When a man falls from a window it is ... an accident.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Ukraine, someone is thinking "Style be damned, this was a message."

They will continue to disagree about which method is best regardless of specific situation and intended subtlety until one of them is shot or falls out of a window.