Kremlin opponents injured in Lithuania
Suspects caught after attack on Volkov in Poland
April 19, 2024, 11:05 a.m
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In March, exiled Leonid Volkov was attacked and injured outside his home in Vilnius. The Russian opposition figure accuses the Kremlin of being behind the crime. The Polish authorities have now arrested two suspects.
According to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, two people who are said to have carried out the violent attack on Kremlin critic Leonid Volkov in Lithuania have been arrested in Poland. The suspects will soon be handed over to Lithuania once the procedural steps have been completed, as Nauseda told Lithuanian Radio in Vilnius.
He thanked the Polish authorities for their work. There was initially no announcement of the arrest. The head of state of the Baltic EU and NATO country initially did not provide any further information about the two suspects and the possible extradition date. The Lithuanian police did not comment on this either.
Volkov, who lived in exile in Lithuania, was attacked and injured in front of his home in Vilnius in March. The background to the crime is still unclear. The close confidant of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, who died in a prison camp on February 16, blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for this. Lithuania’s intelligence service suspected that Russian special services were behind the attack on the opposition figure.