The news that the former United States intelligence contractor has been granted Russian citizenship has prompted some to jokingly ask if he would be called up for military service in Ukraine.
Edward Snowden was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013 that revealed vast domestic and international surveillance operations carried out by the National Security Agency.Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted citizenship to former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the National Security Agency .
"Will Snowden be drafted?" Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the state media outlet RT and a vocal Putin supporter, wrote with dark humour on her Telegram channel. That year a US appeals court found the program Snowden had exposed was unlawful and that the US intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
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