Why 🦉 TopHeadlinesBot picked: Russia has released Stephen Hubbard, a retired American teacher who had been imprisoned on charges of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg.

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