The American history teacher and former diplomat Marc Fogel was released from a Russian prison and en route to the United States. The American national security adviser Mike Waltz reports this on Tuesday, according to international media. The release is part of a prison exchange, but Waltz does not go further in detail about a counter -performance.
According to Waltz, the release of goodwill “of Russia gives and it is also a sign that” we are heading in the right direction to end the cruel and terrible war in Ukraine. “
Drug
The 63-year-old Fogel, who taught at the now closed Anglo-American School in Moscow, was arrested in 2021 at an airport in the capital. In his luggage, eleven gram of marijuana and eight grams of hash oil would have been found, thus ABC News. The teacher would carry the narcotic drugs because of chronic back pain, Fogels put a family into defense.
Nevertheless, the history teacher in Russia was sentenced to fourteen years in prison for drug smuggling. In prison he would have trained fellow detainees in the English language, reports The BBC.
The Van Fogel family appealed several times to the US government, but he failed to involve the teacher in a large -scale prisoners exchange in 2024. At the time, the Kremlin released sixteen prisoners, including The Wall Street Journal-Journalist Evan Gershkovich. The United States ruled last December that Fogel was “wrongly held”.
Trump
In a statement, the Donald Trump family thanks, who has been president of the United States since January. “We are more than grateful, relieved and overwhelmed that our father, husband and son, Marc Fogel, will finally come home after more than three years of detention,” says the family, according to CBS News.
“Thanks to the steadfast leadership of President Trump, Marc will soon return to American soil, freely where he belongs. This has been the darkest and most painful period of our lives, but today we are starting to heal. ”