Edward Snowden has been granted one-year temporary asylum in Russia and reportedly left the Moscow airport he's been staying in since June 23.

Snowden was in Sheremetyevo International Airport and can now enter Russian territory. “I have just handed over to him papers from the Russian Immigration Service. They are what he needs to leave the transit zone,” Snowden's lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, said, according to the RT network.

"Snowden's whereabouts will be kept secret for security reasons," an Associated Press report that also quotes Kucherena says.

While the US wanted Snowden extradited to face prosecution for espionage and theft of government property, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised asylum to Snowden as long as he stops leaking US secrets. Snowden, a former contractor for the National Security Agency, leaked information about how the US government conducts mass surveillance.

WikiLeaks, which has helped Snowden since his rise to public prominence, confirmed on Twitter that "Edward Snowden was granted temporary asylum in Russia for a year and has now left Moscow airport under the care of WikiLeaks' Sarah Harrison."

There's no word yet on what will happen after Snowden's one year of asylum is up. "We have won the battle—now the war," the WikiLeaks Twitter account said.

UPDATE: White House spokesman Jay Carney said the US is "extremely disappointed" Russia provided asylum to Snowden, and that the decision undermines joint law enforcement efforts between Moscow and Washington, the Wall Street Journal reported. The decision "also threatens to derail a planned September summit in Moscow between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which US officials had viewed as a potential breakthrough moment in a monthslong drive to find common ground with Russia on important foreign-policy aims, such as ending the war in Syria," the Journal wrote.

Snowden's temporary asylum can be renewed at the end of the one-year period. The designation "allows him to live, work and travel in Russia and seek citizenship if he stays in the country for half a decade," the Journal article said.