A former aide to Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny was attacked on Tuesday.
Leonid Volkov, 43, was overwhelmed with a hammer and doused in pepper spray as he sat in his automobile exterior his dwelling in Lithuania, in accordance with a number of individuals who know him.
“Leonid is at dwelling, the police and an ambulance are on their strategy to him,” wrote Navalny press secretary Kira Yarmysh in a post on X.
The assault comes as Russia continues to go after Navalny’s associates following the activist’s dying in a Siberian jail on February 16.
Late final month, Russian authorities arrested his former lawyer on fees of “violating public order.”
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Volkov served as Navalny’s chief of workers throughout his 2018 presidential run towards Vladimir Putin, 71.
The circumstances of the assault, in addition to Volkov’s place of residence in a small village, has led some to invest that the assault was ordered.
“Meaning this wasn’t a random avenue hooligan or a robber. It is a one that went there particularly to assault Volkov,” wrote journalist Sergey Parkhomenko on Telegram.
A former aide to Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny was attacked on Tuesday.
Leonid Volkov, 43, was overwhelmed with a hammer and doused in pepper spray as he sat in his automobile exterior his dwelling in Lithuania, in accordance with a number of individuals who know him.
“Leonid is at dwelling, the police and an ambulance are on their strategy to him,” wrote Navalny press secretary Kira Yarmysh in a submit X.
The assault comes as Russia continues to go after Navalny’s associates following the activist’s dying in a Siberian jail on February 16.
Late final month, Russian authorities arrested his former lawyer on fees of “violating public order.”
READ MORE: Vladimir Putin ‘gave the order’ to free Navalny before ‘murder’ in cover-up plot
Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova expressed dismay on the assault towards her “expensive colleague” in a post on X.
“Been simply chatting with Leonid like half-hour in the past WTF WTF WTF,” she wrote. “HITTING WITH A HAMMER WTF. PUTIN IS A KILLER.”
Navalny’s funeral was lastly held on March 1, after Russian authorities delayed handing the physique again to his mom for a number of days.
His reason for dying has not been independently verified, although the jail the place he had been held on numerous trumped-up fees, together with extremism and embezzlement, mentioned he died of “sudden dying syndrome.”
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