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Russia frees retired US schoolteacher in goodwill gesture as Putin meets Witkoff

Daily Maverick · 22 October 2026 at 12:40

Russia frees retired US schoolteacher in goodwill gesture as Putin meets Witkoff

Russia freed Stephen Hubbard, a retired US schoolteacher in custody since 2022, from prison on Wednesday and took him to St Petersburg to fly back to the US, after talks that Washington said were a step toward ending the war in Ukraine.

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