“Someone broke a car window and sprayed tear gas in his eyes, after which the attacker started hitting Leonid with a hammer,” Yarmysh wrote late Tuesday on X. “Leonid is now at home, police and ambulance are on their way to him.”
Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, of which Volkov once served as chairman, posted photos on X of Volkov with a bloodied leg and swollen face. The organization also posted a photo of a car’s smashed window.
Navalny founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation in 2011 to investigate alleged corruption by high-ranking Russian officials, including and increasingly by those within the Kremlin elite. The foundation was outlawed by Russia.
Maria Pevchikh, director of the foundation, also reported the attack on Volkov saying on X that he was “beaten up with a hammer.”