Mark Vogel, American was Declared in Russia Since 2021, he returned in the United States on Tuesday.
Vogel, a history teacher who was working at the Anglo -American School in Moscow, returned to the United States after his release from Russia after talks with the Trump administration.
He was serving a 14 -year prison sentence after his arrest in August 2021 at Russian airport Horism of drugsWhose family said was described medically marijuana.
Vogel was seen in a photo published by the White House on social media smiling and raising his grip while he was wrapped in an American flag walking on the plane on our land.
An American mother, Mark Fujel, thank you, President Donald Trump: “He kept his promise.”
Mark Vogel, a history teacher in Pennsylvania, who was working at the Anglo -American School in Moscow, returned to the American soil on Tuesday night, after Russia, where he has been arrested since 2021. (White House via X)
“Mark Vogel returned !!! The White House wrote on X.
After his arrival in the United States, he met Vogel, from Pennsylvania Donald Trump At the White House, he described him as a hero to secure his release.
“I want you to know that I am not a hero in this at all. President Trump is a hero,” said Vogel after Trump's interview.
“These men who came from the diplomatic service are heroes,” Fajel continued. “Members of the Senate and the actors who approved legislation on my balcony – they reached home – they are heroes.”
America launched Mark Vogel from the Russian reservation
US President Donald Trump, former detained Mark Fujel, is giving up on the White House in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025. (Photography Ting Shen/AFP via Getty Images)
“I am in awe of what they all did,” Vogel added.
He said he feels “like the most fortunate man on Earth now.”
Trump's National Security Adviser, Michael Waltz, said that the United States and Russia “negotiated an exchange” to ensure the release of Vogel, although he did not reveal what the United States surrendered. Some of the previous negotiations included the publications of the Russians by the United States or its allies, opposite an American detained.
When the correspondents were asked on Tuesday about whether the United States had abandoned anything against Vogel, Trump replied “not much” without providing additional details.
US President Donald Trump Mark Vogel welcomes a return to the United States after his release from the Russian reservation, in the White House on February 11, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photography from Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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The Fujel Trump family thanked and others who worked to secure his release.
“We are grateful, comfortable and overwhelmed that after more than three years of detention, our father, our husband and our son Mark Fujel will finally return home,” the family said in a statement.
“Thanks to President Trump's fixed leadership, Mark will soon return to American territory, free to the place he belongs. This period was the darkest and most painful in our lives, but today we start recovery.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
