Leonid Volkov, the former chief of staff of late Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, was attacked on Tuesday outside his house in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Navalny’s former press person and assistant Kira Yarmysh reported the attack on social media. “Leonid Volkov has just been attacked near his home.
They broke the window in his car and sprayed tear gas in his eyes, after which the attacker began to beat Leonid with a hammer.
Now Leonid is at home, the police and an ambulance are on their way to him,” she wrote in a post on X. A later post on the Team Navalny X handle showed a photo of Volkov being wheeled out of an ambulance.
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