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Russia frees retired US schoolteacher in goodwill gesture as Putin meets Witkoff
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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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- October 22, 2026
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