US School Director Released by Russia

American diplomat at the American school and Marc Fokel landed in the US after being removed from Russian prison.

The 63-year-old was landed in Andrews Base in the dc. Washington DC on Tuesday evening. Donald Trump will find President later in the White House.

The liberation of Mr. Fogel was negotiated with Russia in exchange, Mike Waltz said earlier in the U.S. National Security National Adviser told Tuesday without giving more details.

Russia has not commented on its version. Fogel’s sister, on the other hand, said to BBC’s “great relief” in his freedom.

“I plan to celebrate next 24 hours,” said Anne Fogel. “We are very happy.”

In 2021 he said his brother in Russia said, Last Wednesday, he moved to the Criminal Colony of Rybinsk last Wednesday. The family knew his release was a chance, but he said that “these negotiations are very tempera.

After landing the US soil, posted X white X.: “Promises made, saved promises!” Along with a picture of Mr. Fogel.

CBS News, BBC’s US News, His wife Jane and Sons Ethan and Sam said: “It has been the darkest and most painful time in our lives, but we start to heal today.”

Mr. Fogel was arrested at an airport in 2021 to be cannabis illegal property.

They were accused of carrying a small number of medical marijuana prescribed in the United States and was sentenced to a 14-year prison.

The legal group of Fogel was criticized for his role in the negotiation of Trump.

“President Trump’s release was secured in MARC in a few weeks, not wasting the decisive actions to bring Marc home.

Mr. Fogel was not detained by the US government until December 2024. Although he started his sentence in 2022.

His family tried to promote former President Joe Biden to ensure his release and were disappointed when they were excluded from prisoners in 2022 and 2024.

The US Basketball Star Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia in a similar load in Cannabis in 2022, it was The viktor bout is free in an exchange of Russian arm vendors 10 months later.

Then the Biden Administration ensured three more Americans last year The greatest exchange of prisoners between Russia and the west since the cold war. The Americans were released by the Wall Street Journal Journalist Evan Gershkovich, the US Maritime Paul Whelan, and Alsu Kurmasheva was a Russian-American radio journalist.

Anne Fogel said BBC At the time of feeling “betrayal, he learned that his brother was not included in the prison exchange, as he praised as” diplomacy “.”

Mr. Fogel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was a professor of the Anglo-American School of Moscow. He previously served as diplomat in the US Embassy.

While in jail, English taught students.

It is not clear if the US released someone in exchange for Mr. Fogel.

Mr. Fogel flew with Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump sent to the Middle East.

A trip to Russia is located in the first year by a U.S. U.S. U.S. official USA. Most of the relationships between nations closed Russia following the invasion of Ukrainian.

National Security Advisors Waltz said that Fogel’s dismissal was the show of the good faith of the Russian and to end the Sign in the right direction to end the violent and terrible war. ” He didn’t give more details.

The President Trump earned earlier on Tuesday, the Secretary of Finance that Scott went to Ukraine later this week.

In his presidency campaign, Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine 24 hours.

But on Monday, he said in a conversation with Fox News: “They can make a deal with them, they have no agreement. They may be one day in Russia, or maybe they are not one day in Russian.

He asked the link between BBC in Ukrainian liberation and conflict, Anne Fogel said: “These are the giant machining of world politics.

“It will be interesting to look back and see how this is fitting and … how the history plays.”