Still, when Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced he would release Hubbard at the top of a meeting on Wednesday with Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg, Witkoff responded by publicly praising him for freeing the American the U.S. government says he jailed on false charges -- calling Putin a “humanitarian."

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