An American school teacher in the next few days in the United States said in exchange for the release of the American school teacher Marc Fogel in this week.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry S. Peskov, told reporters that Russia will not recognize the prison after freedom.
Mr. Peskov said that close talks between the United States and Russia are one of the citizens of the Russian Federation, both Fogel and the United States, but also the liberation of the Russian Federation. ”
Mr. Peskov added: “This citizen of the Russian Federation will be returned to Russia in the coming days.”
American officials had no immediate comments.
Mr. Fogel, who spent more than three years in Russia, was expanded to include a special jet from Moscow to the United States, Steve Witkoff, the Russian and its war in Ukraine.
He was Was welcomed in the White House Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump approved and to be released.
White House referring to the release of Mr. Fogel as “exchange”, it was not immediately cleansed by whom or what, the Kremlin will go out of the transaction.
In August 63, 2021, I worked in Anglo-American school of Moscow about 10 years before being arrested at a Moscow airport.
It was found to travel with the secret to lighten his lawyer's back pain.
Mr. Fogel, in June 2022, was involved in the “large-scale drug smuggling” and was sentenced to 14 years in prison in high security prison.
US State Department He clearly announced Mr. Fogel “was taken into custody” In December. The destination was long for his family – Mr. Fogel's work was transferred to the department of a special state department, a special state department department to release the collateral.
Mr. Fogel's family said in December in the prison that the “unimaginable difficulty” and other Americans in Russia were brought to three different prisoners.
If the United States releases a Russian language to release Mr Fogel, the delayed trade would be a surprising departure from the intense choreography of prisoners between Moscow and Washington during the Biden administration.
In high-level transactions as those who release the basketball star Brittney Griner in 2022 and a journalist Evan Gershkovich in 2024The Americans flew to the airports in a triple country, where they were exchanged for the Russians in the TARMA.
The delayed approach allowed Mr. Trump to demand an unloided victory on Tuesday without discussing what was refused by Mr Fogel.
Mr Trump said, “We have been treated very stylishly by Russia,” and the deal could open the way to the end of the war in Ukraine. He added: “I hope that this war is the beginning of a relationship we can end.”
Unusual cases of release of Mr. Fogel, a real estate developer, one of the most reliable lieutenants in Mr. Trump, included his search by Mr. Witkoff.
Mr. Witkoff flew to Moscow on a private jet on Tuesday to return the American prisoner. Since 2021, he visited Russia's capital, Russia's capital, said that Mr. Trump has released Azerbaijan from the strategy of the Biden Administration, which is diplomatically isolated.
Moscow did not know what Mr. Witkoff did in place. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Mr. Peskov, Mr. Witkoff refused to comment on whether Mr. Witkoff President Vladimir V. Putin was heard.
Touching upon Russia's importance to Russia's importance to the United States, Mr. Peskov said: “Such agreements are less likely to be a turning point, but at the same time, these are certain steps to build a lot of mutual confidence.”