00:00Former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman returned to the United States late Tuesday evening after being released from a Russian
00:07prison, where he had been held since 2022.
00:11The 32-year-old was welcomed by U.S. officials upon arrival and is expected to receive medical treatment after
00:18advocates raised concerns about his deteriorating health while imprisoned in Russia.
00:24Earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump said his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had approved Gilman's release on humanitarian grounds.
00:34Gilman was reportedly held at a psychiatric ward of a hospital while in Russia.
00:39Accused of assaulting a police officer following an incident on a train in Voronezh to the south of Moscow, Gilman
00:46was arrested and detained.
00:47He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison over the incident, but his sentence was later extended
00:54to 10 years after he was alleged to have attacked prison staff.
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