Leonid Volkov, the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s close associate and top strategist, on Wednesday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “henchmen” of being behind a brutal attack that left him hospitalized in Lithuania’s capital and vowed to “not give up.”
Police said an assailant attacked Volkov on Tuesday as he arrived in a car at his Vilnius home, where he lives in exile. The attacker smashed one of his car’s 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
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