Fogel was sentenced to 14 years in prison in Russia, which the U.S. has condemned as a wrongful detention, after a small amount of medical cannabis was found in his luggage.

A deal brokered by President Trump’s special envoy freed the schoolteacher, who was arrested in 2021 and was serving a 14-year prison sentence.

The Kremlin said Wednesday that a Russian citizen was freed in the United States in exchange for Moscow’s release of American Marc Fogel, but refused to identify them until they arrive in Russia. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the unidentified individual would return to Russia “in the coming days,