MI6 strikes again: Navalny’s aide Volkov beaten up in Lithuania

We are two days from the opening of polls in Russia for the 2024 presidential election and the Brits could not pass up an opportunity to spoil the mood by cooking up a follow-on atrocity to remind us of the murder of Alexei Navalny that they brought to the door of Putin in mid-February.  This morning’s BBC News had extensive coverage of an attack on Navalny’s confederate and continuator of his mission, Leonid Volkov, who resides in Lithuania in self-imposed exile. The propaganda message was clear: opposition personalities must fear for their lives even if they live outside Russia. In the event, Volkov survived the attack of his assailant with hammer and tear gas (?) and gave an interview to reassert his determination to resist the Putin regime. He is said to have suffered bone fractures in his leg.