Former United States Marine Robert Gilman is on his way back to the US after being freed from prison in Russia.
US President Donald Trump said his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had approved Gilman's release on humanitarian grounds. Gilman is said to be in poor health and was reportedly being held in a psychiatric ward of a hospital.
Trump added that Moscow did not ask for a prisoner swap and that Gilman was set to land at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C on Tuesday evening.
"I just spoke to him, and he had one request — A GREAT cheeseburger when he lands. I will take care of that!" Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Gilman was arrested and detained in Russia in 2022, accused of assaulting a police officer following an incident on a train in Voronezh, to the south of Moscow. He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison over the incident, but his sentence was later extended to 10 years after he was alleged to have attacked prison staff.
