Dmitry Muratov posts picture and says his assailant shouted ‘here’s one for our boys’ in assault on train
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The Nobel peace prize-winning editor of the Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta has said he was attacked on a train in Russia over Moscow’s war in Ukraine by an assailant who poured red paint on him.
Dmitry Muratov said in a post to Telegram the incident happened on Thursday on a train heading from Moscow south-east to the city of Samara when the assailant shouted: “Muratov, here’s one for our boys.” He said his eyes were “burning terribly” after the assault and posted a selfie from the train toilet.