Russia has released the American teacher Marc Fogel, arrested in the country since August 2021, as announced on Tuesday the administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
“Tonight, Marc Fogel will be on American soil and will meet with his family and loved ones,” said the National Security Advisor of the White House, Mike Waltz, in a statement.
Marc Fogel, born in 1959, is an American school teacher who was arrested in August 2021 by the Russian authorities for trying to enter the country with medical cannabis.
In June 2022 he was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
According to the White House note, Fogel has already left Russian airspace aboard a plane next to Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, who negotiated his release.
Waltz pointed out that the American liberation is a sample of “good faith” of Russia when negotiating the end of the Ukraine War, one of the objectives that Trump has been set.
“President Trump, Steve Witkoff and President’s advisors negotiated an exchange that serves as a good faith of the Russians and a sign that we are moving forward in the right direction to end the brutal and terrible war in Ukraine,” he said Waltz.
According to the advisor, since he assumed power on January 20, Trump has negotiated “successfully” the release of Americans worldwide and “will continue until all Americans detained are returned to the United States.”
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