Alexei Nalvany’s Ex-Chief of Staff Attacked With Hammer Outside Home

The former chief of staff of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was attacked with a hammer and tear gas outside his home in Lithuania on Tuesday, less than a month after his former boss mysteriously turned up dead in a Russian penal colony.

A spokesperson for Navalny, Kira Yarmysh said on X that Leonid Volkov was attacked in his car outside his home. The attacker broke through the car window, sprayed tear gas in Volkov’s eyes, and repeatedly struck him with a hammer. According to The Washington Post, Volkov lives in Lithuania after a self-imposed exile from Russia at least four years ago.

Volkov survived the horrifying ordeal and police were called, said the spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh. Lithuanian police confirmed to Baltic news outlet Delfi that a Russian citizen had been beaten outside his home in Vilnius on March 12 at 10 p.m. but did not provide an identity for the man.

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