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Vilnius attacked the ally of Navalny Leonid Volkov
In Vilnius in the evening of March 12 at 22 hours, unknown people attacked the nearest comrade -in -arms Alexei Navalny, the former chief of the network of his headquarters Leonid Volkov. It is reported by The Insider with reference to Kira Yarmysh, who had been working at Navalny's press secretary for a long time.
According to Yarmysh, Volkov "broke the window in the car with a hammer and sprayed tear gas into the eyes, after which the attacker began to beat Leonida with a hammer."
In a commentary to the agency, Yarmys specified that Volkov fought off the “car and legs door” attackers. “Therefore, they beat where they went - in the legs,” she said .
Volkov is hospitalized. A few hours later, Volkov was released from the hospital with gypsum on his hand. According to the politician, they “tried to make a chop” out of it: the attacker hit him fifteen times with a hammer for the chips on the leg. “It was so typical, obvious, characteristic greetings from Putin, from gangster Petersburg,” Volkov said .
The attack occurred near the house in which Volkov lives, on the outskirts of the capital of Lithuania. Vilnius police confirmed the fact of the attack, the surname Volkov was not named in the message, it is indicated that they attacked a Russian citizen. So far, no versions of what happened are reported.
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Photos of the consequences of the attack were published by another associate of Alexei Navalny, director of the FBK Ivan Zhdanov . The pictures show that Volkov had a head injured and leg in the blood.
“The attack was at the house. They beat the legs with a hammer and touched his hands,” Zhdanov noted . Subsequently, he announced the hospitalization of Volkov and published a photograph in which the politics on a stretcher is brought into an ambulance.
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