# Trump says he asked Putin to release detained American Hubbard

https://mins.news/en/item/108479

- TASS, 2026-10-20 20:24 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2204965

> Trump said he had spoken at length with Putin and asked him to release 72-year-old American Stephen Hubbard, whom Russia convicted of taking part in combat operations on Ukraine’s side. In 2024, the Moscow City Court sentenced Hubbard to six years and ten months in a general-regime penal colony.

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