There seems to be a lot of continued misunderstanding how Snowden managed to end up in Russia.

> On June 22, 2013, 18 days after the publication of Snowden's NSA documents began, officials revoked his US passport.[205] On June 23, Snowden boarded a commercial Aeroflot flight, SU213, to Moscow, accompanied by Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks, with an intended final destination of Ecuador arranged in an Ecuadorian emergency travel document that Snowden had acquired. However, Snowden became initially stranded in Russia upon his landing in Moscow when his US passport was revoked[0]

It's the US' fault that he ended up in Russia. That's the irony.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Flight_from_the...