VILNIUS: Polish authorities have arrested two men suspected of attacking a close ally of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Vilnius in March, Lithuania’s president Gitanas Nauseda said today.
Leonid Volkov was briefly admitted to hospital after he was repeatedly struck with a hammer outside his home in Vilnius on March 12.
Lithuanian intelligence said at the time it suspected Russia’s special services of involvement.
“Two people suspected of having attacked the Russian opposition leader Leonid Volkov are detained in Poland,” Nauseda told reporters.
The attack was staged almost a month after Navalny’s death in an Arctic prison, which Volkov blamed on Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, and days before elections that extended the Kremlin chief’s stay in power.