A Russian man has been brought to court in Poland for the attack on the deceased Russian regime critic Aleksey Navalny's former chief of staff in neighboring Lithuania.
"Last week, charges were brought against a Russian citizen suspected of organizing the assault" on Leonid Volkov, writes the prosecutor's office in a statement.
It was in March this year that the former chief of staff Leonid Volkov was attacked outside his home in Vilnius, where he lives in exile. His eyes were sprayed with pepper spray and he was repeatedly attacked with a hammer.
Volkov left his home country for Lithuania in 2021, after growing repression against dissidents in Russia. The following year, he and several other Navalny employees were put on the Russian state's list of terrorists and extremists.
Aleksey Navalny died under unclear circumstances in an Arctic penal colony in February.
