# Russia releases former US Marine Robert Gilman, who boards plane home

https://mins.news/en/item/19352

- Meduza, 2026-08-11 16:34 UTC
- World
- Original: https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/11/relatives-of-ex-marine-robert-gilman-feared-he-was-dying-in-a-russian-psychiatric-ward-this-week-he-boarded-a-plane-for-home

> Russian authorities have released 32-year-old Robert Gilman, a former US Marine who had been serving a sentence at a penal colony in Voronezh. His relatives feared he was dying in a Russian psychiatric ward. Reuters reported that Vladimir Putin pardoned Gilman on humanitarian grounds. Washington had urged Moscow on August 7 to release him so he could return home for treatment.

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