the putin wants to know how come the empire didn't pursue freedom for gonzalo lira. he won't get a good answer i'm willing to bet;

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine tortured an American journalist to death and called out the government for failing to investigate what happened to him.

The comments were made during a press briefing in St. Petersburg when Putin was asked about the killing of a French journalist in a missile strike. After saying he would facilitate an investigation, he took the opportunity to chide President Biden for his handling of the death of American journalist Gonzalo Lira.

Putin said: “They tortured an American journalist to death in a Ukrainian prison, and the U.S. is not even asking what happened to him. No one went to the trouble of asking what actually happened.”

Lira had been jailed since May of 2023 in Ukraine after being accused of justifying Russia’s military operations against Kiev. The dual American-Chilean citizen, who had moved to Ukraine in 2010, had a collapsed lung and pneumonia at the time of his death in a Kharkiv hospital. He had previously claimed he was tortured in prison by other inmates, which included beatings, sleep deprivation and other abuses.

Lira criticized Zelensky, Biden and Harris

The 55-year-old, who was born in California, had been a vocal critic of authoritarianism in Ukraine and believed the conflict there was a proxy war the U.S. was waging against Russia. He was arrested on charges of "production and dissemination of materials justifying Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine.".........more........