The identity of the Pole who beat Volkov in Vilnius was revealed: an MMA fighter and a football ultra

According to the newspaper’s sources, one of the arrested is Maksymilian K., who is connected to the football hooligan group “Teddy Boys” – fans of the Warsaw “Legia” football club.

Maksymilianas K. is a kickboxer and participates in MMA fights. His Instagram profile description states that he is the First Step Men’s Open champion of the Polish mixed martial arts tournament, Mediazona noted.

They identified the suspects and the customer associated with Russia

Leonidas Volkov was attacked in Vilnius on March 12. in the evening When Volkov drove up to his house, the assailant broke the car window with a hammer, sprayed Volkov with tear gas in his eyes and hit him several times with the hammer. After the attack, the victim was hospitalized with a broken arm. Volkov called the attack “a greeting of bandits from St. Petersburg.”

April 19 Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the arrest of the organizer and participants of the attack. As D. Tusk stated, it was a “Belarusian working for the Russians who instructed two Poles to kill A. Navalny’s colleague.” The suspects in the attack are “linked to ultra-right groups of football fans,” the Polish prime minister said at the time.

At least one mastermind of the attack was identified following an investigation led by The Insider journalists Roman Dobrochotov and Hristo Grozev. One of the suspects, 38-year-old Grzegorz Daszkowski, 2023. threatened Russian economist and activist Maxim Mironov and assaulted his wife in Argentina.

The Polish media also announced that the Polish attackers in Lithuania were betrayed by their language and phone calls.