{"id":591846,"date":"2026-10-21T12:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=591846"},"modified":"2026-10-21T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:01:02","slug":"russia-releases-imprisoned-american-stephen-hubbard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/russia-releases-imprisoned-american-stephen-hubbard","title":{"rendered":"Russia Releases Imprisoned American Stephen Hubbard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Russia has released US citizen <b>Stephen Hubbard<\/b>, who was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison on mercenary charges. <b>Vladimir Putin<\/b> announced the American&#8217;s release during a meeting with <b>Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/b> special envoy, <b>Steve Witkoff<\/b>, on October 21.<\/p>\n<p>According to Putin, Hubbard is at Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Hubbard is 72 years old. He had lived in the Ukrainian city of Izium, in Kharkiv Region, since 2014. In 2024, the Moscow City Court sentenced him to six years and 10 months in prison on mercenary charges. According to the prosecution, Hubbard joined Izium&#8217;s territorial defence force in February 2022. Russian military personnel detained him in April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Several days ago, Trump announced the imminent release of one of the US citizens held in detention in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has released US citizen Stephen Hubbard, who was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison on mercenary charges. Vladimir Putin announced the American&#8217;s release during a meeting with Donald Trump&#8217;s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, on October 21. According to Putin, Hubbard is at Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg. Stephen Hubbard is 72 years old. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":591847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ad88d62a21c3.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Russia Releases Imprisoned American Stephen Hubbard"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090],"tags":[143122],"class_list":["post-591846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics","tag-rossija"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591849,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591846\/revisions\/591849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}