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Re: Putins' WRATH; BRUTAL Hammer Attack on Alexei Navalny Aide
BRUTAL Hammer Attack on Alexei Navalny Aide in Exile in Lithuania, Carried Out by Russia
Navalny Aide Calls His Hammer Attack a Typical Criminal Hello From Putin -Vows Not to Give Up
MailOnline 14 MAR 2024
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - A close associate of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused Russian President Vladimir Putinīs "henchmen" on Wednesday of being behind a brutal attack that left him hospitalized.
Police said an assailant attacked Leonid Volkov on Tuesday as he arrived in a car at his Vilnius home, where he lives in exile. The attacker smashed one of his carīs windows, sprayed tear gas into his eyes and hit him with a hammer, police said.
Volkov suffered a broken arm "and for now he cannot walk because of the severe bruising from the hammer blows," according to Navalnyīs The Anti-Corruption Foundation.
He was hospitalized, but later released, and vowed Wednesday to keep up his work.
"We will work, we will not give up," 43-year-old Volkov said in a short video posted on Telegram on Wednesday, speaking with his arm bandaged and in a sling. "It was a characteristic bandit greeting from Putinīs henchmen." This seemed to be a reference to both Putinīs thuggish style and his stint as a deputy mayor of St. Petersburg in the 1990s when it was considered one of the most criminal cities in Russia.
Police have launched a criminal investigation.
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