Update to the report about the attack carried out on Leonid Volkov.

Leonid Volkov told the details of the attack “They wanted to make a chop out of me. Naturally. A man attacked me with a chop hammer right in the yard of the house. He hit me on the leg 15 times, but for some reason my leg remained intact. It hurts to walk, but they say there is no fracture. But he broke my arm. Well, nothing. It’s a profitable business. The main thing is that we will work and will not give up.”

Volkov called what happened "an obvious, typical criminal ‘hello’ from Putin, from criminal Petersburg”. A few hours before the attack, he told Meduza that Navalny’s team was reviewing security protocols.

“The key risk now is that we will all be killed. Well, that’s a pretty obvious thing.”

Lithuania blamed Moscow on Wednesday for the overnight attack by a hammer-wielding assailant.

President Gitanas Nauseda said the attack on the Navalny aide was clearly pre-planned and tied in with other provocations against Lithuania. "I can only say one thing to Putin - nobody is afraid of you here," Nauseda said.

Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis called the incident shocking and said the perpetrators must "answer for their crime". Lithuania's police commissioner Renatas Pozela said police were devoting "huge resources" to investigate the assault.

Lithuania's State Security Department counter-intelligence agency said the attack was probably carried out to stop the Russian opposition from influencing Russia's presidential election.

The Kremlin views Navalny's team as "the most dangerous opposition force capable of exerting real influence on Russia's internal processes", the Lithuanian security agency
said.

Russian pro-war blogger Vladislav Pozdnyakov, who harasses oppositionists and civil activists, claims that his followers are behind the attack on Volkov. He showed screenshots of correspondence with a person who allegedly followed the oppositionist and his car.

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