“Tear gas sprayed into his eyes’: Navalny confidant Volkov allegedly attacked in Lithuania. “Someone broke a car window and sprayed tear gas in his eyes.
The attacker then began to attack Leonid with a hammer,” said Kira Jarmisch, Navalny’s spokeswoman. Volkov was one of Navalny's closest confidants, who, according to Russian authorities, died in a Russian prison camp in the Arctic where he was serving a 19-year sentence.