Leonid Volkov was injured in an attack in Lithuania on Tuesday.
Police officers patrol near the house of Leonid Volkov, a close associate of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, March 13, 2024.Leonid Volkov, a former top aide to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, is recovering after he was attacked with a hammer by an assailant on Tuesday night near his home in Lithuania, in an assault he blamed on the Kremlin.
Police officers patrol near the house of Leonid Volkov, a close associate of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, March 13, 2024.Volkov accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being behind the attack. "This is obviously a typical, characteristically gangster-ish hello from Putin," he said. "Hello to you too, Vladimir Vladimirovich," he added, using Putin's middle name.
The Kremlin views Navalny's team as "the most dangerous opposition force capable of exerting real influence on Russia's internal processes", the Lithuanian security agency said, according to Reuters.Volkov has lived in Lithuania's capital for the past few years, in exile from Russia where he would face arrest for political activities.
Navalny died in an Arctic prison colony in February after being held in Russian jails since 2021. Navalny's team and family have accused the Kremlin of murdering the opposition leader. His widow, Yulia Navalnaya, has vowed to step into her husband's role, pursuing peaceful ways to undermine Putin's grip on Russia and leading the movement he built.
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