The reported assault comes lower than a month after the loss of life of Navalny in a Russian jail colony.
“Somebody broke a automobile window and sprayed tear fuel in his eyes, after which the attacker began hitting Leonid with a hammer,” Yarmysh wrote late Tuesday on X. “Leonid is now at dwelling, police and ambulance are on their option to him.”
Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Basis, of which Volkov as soon as served as chairman, posted pictures on X of Volkov with a bloodied leg and swollen face. The group additionally posted a photograph of a automobile’s smashed window. His affiliate Ivan Zhdanov posted pictures of Volkov being introduced into an ambulance on a gurney.
Volkov was Navalny’s longtime prime political adviser and helped run Navalny’s campaigns. He fled Russia underneath menace of persecution and has confronted varied prices introduced in opposition to him in Russia. In 2021, a Moscow courtroom ordered his arrest for encouraging minors to take part in unauthorized rallies — in what Lithuanian Inside Minister Agne Bilotaite condemned as “politically motivated prosecution,” in response to VOA Information.
Volkov has additionally served as chairman of the Anti-Corruption Basis, which Navalny based in 2011 to examine alleged corruption by high-ranking Russian officers, more and more together with these inside the Kremlin elite. The inspiration was outlawed by Russia. Navalny was jailed in 2021 and, in August, a Russian courtroom handed him a 19-year sentence on extremism prices. He died immediately on Feb. 16 whereas in an Arctic penal colony.
Russia’s crackdown on dissent has been increasing for years, and political circumstances have snowballed because the nation invaded Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has criminalized antiwar protest and has suppressed battle critics, political dissenters and impartial journalism.
Lithuanian International Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis stated that related authorities are engaged on Volkov’s case. “Information about Leonid’s assault are stunning,” Landsbergis wrote on X. “Perpetrators must reply for his or her crime.”