Police say assault on Leonid Volkov was probably done by Moscow to stop Russian opposition influencing presidential election

Lithuania has blamed Moscow for the bloody overnight hammer attack on a longtime aide to the late Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, outside his home in Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius.

Leonid Volkov, 43, was briefly hospitalised after being attacked with a hammer by an unknown assailant late on Tuesday.

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