Kremlin says Russian citizen released in US after Trump greets freed teacher

Russia says its citizen will return from the US in the coming days, after Trump hailed the release of American Marc Fogel.

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Mr Fogel, a 63-year-old former diplomat, landed at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington, DC late on Tuesday evening, before he was welcomed home by President Donald Trump at the White House.

Trump, standing alongside Mr Fogel in the White House, said: "To me he looks damned good."

The president said that another detainee would be freed on Wednesday without giving their name.

Mr Fogel, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had been working as a teacher at the Anglo-American School of Moscow. He had previously worked as a diplomat at the US embassy there.

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