Leonid Volkov, the previous chief of workers of late Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, was attacked on Tuesday outdoors his home in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Navalny’s former press particular person and assistant Kira Yarmysh reported the assault on social media.
“Leonid Volkov has simply been attacked close to his residence. They broke the window in his automotive and sprayed tear fuel in his eyes, after which the attacker started to beat Leonid with a hammer. Now Leonid is at residence, the police and an ambulance are on their approach to him,” she wrote in a put up on X.
A later put up on the Crew Navalny X deal with confirmed a photograph of Volkov being wheeled out of an ambulance.
Volkov, 43, served as Navalny’s chief of workers for his 2018 presidential election marketing campaign and was additionally the chairman of his Anti-Corruption Basis till 2023.
He was one of many key interviewees in Daniel Roher’s Oscar-winning documentary Navalny with Navalny, his spouse Yulia Navalnaya, Bellingcat journalist Christo Grozev and Anti-Corruption Basis investigator Maria Pevchikh.
Volvok has lived in Lithuania since 2020 after teams linked to Navalny had been classed as “extremist” by Russian authorities.
The assault on Volkov comes on the eve of Russia’s upcoming presidential election, working from 15 to 17 March, which President Vladimir Putin is predicted to win having neutralized his political opponents.
Final month, Volkov urged Russians to prove in huge numbers for an election day protest in opposition to Putin known as by Navalny shortly earlier than he died all of a sudden in an Arctic jail on February 16.
