US schoolteacher Marc Fogel held in Russian prison since 2021 finally released after visit by Trump envoy

AMERICAN schoolteacher Marc Fogel has been released from a Russian situation aft being deed with trumped up charges.

Fogel, 63, was arrested astatine an airdrome successful 2021 for the amerciable possession of a tiny magnitude of aesculapian cannabis and slapped with a 14-year sentence.

Fogel was freed from captivity aft a gathering with President Donald Trump's envoy successful Moscow.

The US and Russia agreed for the past teacher's merchandise arsenic portion of an speech with Russia.

The determination was announced by White House peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff who said they were heading backmost to the US with Fogel.

He is yet to corroborate what Russia gained successful return.

White House nationalist information advisor Mike Waltz aboriginal announced successful a statement: "Today, President Donald J. Trump and his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff are capable to denote that Mr. Witkoff is leaving Russian airspace with Marc Fogel, an American who was detained by Russia.

"President Trump, Steve Witkoff and the president's advisors negotiated an speech that serves arsenic a amusement of bully religion from the Russians and a motion we are moving successful the close absorption to extremity the brutal and unspeakable warfare successful Ukraine."

Fogel was officially designated arsenic "wrongfully detained" by the US precocious past year.

The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, autochthonal was a teacher astatine the Anglo-American School of Moscow anterior to his arrest.

He had besides worked arsenic a diplomat astatine the US embassy successful the capital.

During his successful prison, helium had reportedly been teaching English to chap inmates.