Sky News host James Morrow says while the Putin regime is terrible and completely corrupt, a “sophisticated look” at the internal politics of the country should also be taken before “we try and meddle in them”.

It comes after a Russian court recently sentenced Kremlin critic and Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny to 3.5 years in prison for violating the terms of his probation.

Mr Navalny has already spent a year under house arrest.

At the hearing, Russian authorities accused the Opposition Leader of failing to disclose his whereabouts in 2020 and of working for United State intelligence services.

However, in a heated address to the court Mr Navalny said he had been unable to disclose his location due to his comatose state after he came into contact with the nerve agent Novichok.

Mr Morrow said, “one of the mistakes we can make in the west is to just paint Navalny as completely the good guy here”.

“You have to look at a lot of his supporters, a lot of them are also ex-communist, some of them are quite far to the right as well”.