# Putin ordena liberação de um americano preso enquanto reúne-se com envoi do Trump sobre conversas na Ucrânia

- Seção: Estados Unidos
- Fonte: The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/putin-witkoff-russia-ukraine-trump-stephen-hubbard-release)
- Publicado em: 2026-10-21T15:24:58.000Z
- URL: https://www.itatiba1.com.br/noticia/1288959-putin-ordena-liberacao-de-um-americano-preso-enquanto-reune-se-com-envoi-do
- Tradução automática do original em "en": "Putin orders release of jailed American as he meets Trump envoy for Ukraine talks"

> A Rússia libertou Stephen Hubbard após solicitação dos EUA, enquanto Steve Witkoff elogia Putin como um "humanitário" em reuniões com o envoi do Trump sobre a Ucrânia.

Russia frees Stephen Hubbard after US request while Steve Witkoff praises Putin, wanted by ICC as war criminal, as a ‘humanitarian’

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Vladimir Putin ordered the release of an American man from a Russian jail as he met Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg on Wednesday for fresh talks on ending the war in Ukraine, amid increasingly close relations between Moscow and Washington.

Trump had previously asked Putin to free Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old former teacher who had spent more than four years in Russian jails on charges of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine .

Reportagem completa: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/putin-witkoff-russia-ukraine-trump-stephen-hubbard-release

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