RUSSIA FREES AILING EX-US MARINE AFTER PUTIN’S ‘GOODWILL’ PARDON

Moscow on ⁠Tuesday freed a former US marine jailed in Russia ⁠since 2022 after Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a pardon for the ailing American based on humanitarian reasons, US officials said. The White House and the State Department had urged Moscow to release Robert Gilman, 32, so he could receive medical treatment in the United States.

News - South China Morning Post reports that moscow on ⁠Tuesday freed a former US marine jailed in Russia ⁠since 2022 after Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a pardon for the ailing American based on humanitarian reasons, US officials said.

The report adds: The White House and the State Department had urged Moscow to release Robert Gilman, 32, so he could receive medical treatment in the United States.

Gilman was being held in a prison in Voronezh, about ‌340 miles (550km) south of Moscow.

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