See It: Putin pressed on Alexei Navalny's death by NBC Correspondent

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that he agreed with the idea of a prisoner swap involving opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a penal colony, and "some people in prison in Western countries." NBC News' Keir Simmons reports.


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Putin says he agreed to swap Alexei Navalny for prisoners held in the West

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[boombasett]

LIAR. He was never going to let Navalny go.

[wilfriedholscher]

Easy to say after you killed Nawalny, Vladolf 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[conspicuouslyinconspicuous]

Wow. He must have felt like loser only getting 87% of the vote. Wasn't his approval rating recently 138%?

[pho-kingsoup]

Just a reminder that the only time NATO article 5 was ever implemented was in defence of America after the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001.

[Mr.Precedent]

Isn't it incredible how many people "vote" for a candidate when dissent tends to be fatal?

[de]

Recall that Putin though his army would take over Ukraine in a matter of days. That was now 25 months, and hundreds of thousands of Russian lives, ago.

[lizliz]

You'd think Putin would have protected Navalny if this was true. He didn't.
A 47 yo man doesn't just suddenly die.

[danboyd]

88% voted for Putin with 12% voting to fall out a window.

[carlosspeicywiener]

And he honestly believes that we all believe that. I wonder if he knows how much we laugh at him.

[jjhdse]

Everyone who "observed" the vote count mysteriously fell out highrise windows.

[body]

Putin could say that today is friday and he would believe that the rest of the world would believe it

[mvvpro]

Peskov: "Everything is extremely transparent in Russia. Just come with me to this window... here, see how transparent? Oops, we seem to have lost you."

[pwugxhc]

I swear you could see his nose grow as he was saying it

[eliassalcedo]

The sky is blue, the ice is hard and the water is wet. Putin re elected himself, again.

[nik-btd]

Nice try but it's pity because he told so many lies before, we still don't believe him for this one.

[Bean]

most russians don't know who navalny is.

[oconnem]

Wow. I was wondering who would have the biggest victory. Lukashenko in 2020 in Belarus or Putin in 2024 in Russia. Actually I was betting on Putin. Lukashenko only got 81% of the vote. He was not quite up to the same level of repression/police state. At the time.

[pamelacassise]

Does that reporter realize he is in Russia and that his life is probably in danger now?

[Bergen]

His opponents are in prison or have been killed

[rigomechelmans]

Make sure that Mr. Simmons does not fall out of a window or commits "suicide" after his questioning Putin...