Assault left Leonid Volkov, a close ally of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, with a broken arm: ‘They literally wanted to make a schnitzel out of me’.
Leonid Volkov, a close ally of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was assaulted outside his home in Vilnius on Tuesday, an incident that sparked an uproar from the Lithuanian government.
Volkov vowed to continue his struggle against President Vladimir Putin in a video posted on Telegram early Wednesday after he was discharged from hospital.
“We will work and we will not give up,” he said, adding that the attack, which left him with a broken arm, was a “characteristic bandit hello” from Putin’s henchmen.
Volkov, 43, is one of Russia’s most prominent opposition figures and was a close confidant of Navalny, working as the late leader’s ex-chief of staff and as chair of his Anti-Corruption Foundation until 2023.
In his post on Wednesday, Volkov said he was struck 15 times on the leg during the attack.
“The leg somehow is OK, it hurts to walk… However, I broke my arm,” Volkov said Wednesday.
