Navalny ally Leonid Volkov attacked with hammer near Lithuanian home
Al Jazeera
Former strategist to Russian opposition leader was admitted to hospital after the assault on Tuesday night.
Leonid Volkov, a close ally of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny who died last month in a remote penal colony, has been admitted to hospital after being attacked with a hammer outside his home in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.
Volkov is one of Russia’s most prominent opposition figures and was Navalny’s former chief of staff and, until recently, chair of his Anti-Corruption Foundation.
The Kremlin ordered a warrant for Volkov’s arrest in 2021.
“Leonid Volkov has just been attacked outside his house. Someone broke a car window and sprayed tear gas in his eyes, after which the attacker started hitting Leonid with a hammer,” Navalny spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on social media platform X on Tuesday night.
Volkov’s wife Anna Biryukova also shared photos of her husband’s injuries on social media, including a black eye, a red mark on his forehead and bleeding on his leg, which had soaked through his jeans.
