跟进：普京在圣彼得堡会谈中宣布释放被扣押四年多的美国教师 Stephen Hubbard：人已被送往机场

圣彼得堡——据英国广播公司（BBC）与美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）援引俄罗斯国家媒体报道，俄罗斯总统普京（Vladimir Putin）周三在圣彼得堡与美国总统特使 Steve Witkoff 会谈时宣布，俄方已同意释放被扣押四年多的美国公民 Stephen Hubbard，Hubbard 已被送往圣彼得堡 Pulkovo 机场。据塔斯社（TASS）报道，宣布释放 Hubbard 是当天会谈迄今公布的首项成果。

Witkoff 周三上午抵达圣彼得堡，在君士坦丁宫（Constantine Palace）与普京会谈，俄总统特使 Kirill Dmitriev 等人出席；据 CNN 报道，特朗普的女婿 Jared Kushner 因患流感远程参加。据路透社报道，普京在会谈中感谢美国总统特朗普为结束乌克兰战争所作的努力，表示俄方有意恢复与美国的经济联系；Witkoff 表示停火已有基础，希望普京考虑恢复俄、美、乌三方会谈。就在前一天，Witkoff 刚在挪威 Oslo 与乌克兰总统泽连斯基会谈，美方官员称双方已就和平框架的下一步形成一致。

特朗普周二在白宫对记者表示，他已就 Hubbard 一案多次与普京交谈，称是时候让 Hubbard 回国了，并暗示近日会有进展。一名美国官员此前表示，Witkoff 此行预计将争取释放被美国国务院（State Department）认定为遭错误扣押的 Hubbard。

Hubbard 现年74岁，是一名退休教师，出身 Michigan 州 Big Rapids，曾在美国空军与国民警卫队服役，拥有英语硕士学位；他在日本教了25年英语，后移居塞浦路斯，2014年与乌克兰伴侣搬到乌克兰东部城市 Izyum。2022年2月俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰，两个月后攻占 Izyum，Hubbard 于同年4月被俄方扣押。2024年10月，莫斯科一家法院经闭门审理，以参加雇佣兵活动判处他6年10个月监禁；俄方检方称他加入乌克兰国土防卫部队、接受训练并领取武器弹药、每月可得1000美元，俄国家媒体称他已经认罪。

他的姐姐 Patricia Hubbard Fox 对所谓认罪提出质疑，称 Hubbard 持亲俄观点、年逾七旬，不可能拿起武器参战。Hubbard 在美国的律师 Martin De Luca 2025年6月告诉路透社，Hubbard 向他表示指控不实、自己从未加入任何作战或军事单位，是俄军士兵直接从他家中把他抓走的。

2025年1月，美国国务院将 Hubbard 认定为遭错误扣押，使美方得以通过谈判争取其获释，并称俄方一直拒绝美方官员对他进行领事探视。据《纽约时报》报道，Hubbard 在受审前曾被辗转关押于至少五个扣押地点，其律师团队直到2025年4月才确认他被关押在莫斯科以东 Mordovia 地区的一处设施。他靠每月约300美元的养老金生活，与姐姐最后一次通话是在2021年9月。

截至发稿时，美国国务院与白宫尚未就 Hubbard 获释发表正式声明，他离开俄罗斯及回国的时间安排尚不清楚。

Follow-up: Putin Announces Release of U.S. Teacher Stephen Hubbard, Held in Russia for More Than Four Years, During Talks With Envoy Witkoff

ST. PETERSBURG — Russian President Vladimir Putin announced during talks with U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg on Wednesday that Russia has agreed to release Stephen Hubbard, an American citizen detained for more than four years, and that Hubbard has been taken to St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport, the BBC and CNN reported, citing Russian state media. According to TASS, the announcement of Hubbard's release was the first outcome made public from Wednesday's talks.

Witkoff arrived in St. Petersburg on Wednesday morning and met Putin at the Constantine Palace, with Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev among those attending; President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner joined remotely because he has the flu, CNN reported. Putin thanked Trump for his efforts to settle the war in Ukraine and said Russia was interested in restoring economic ties with the United States, Reuters reported, while Witkoff said there was a basis for a ceasefire and that he hoped Putin would consider resuming three-way talks between Russia, the United States and Ukraine. A day earlier, Witkoff met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Oslo, Norway, where a U.S. official said the two sides were in strong alignment on the next steps of a peace framework.

Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday that he had spoken with Putin about Hubbard's case at length, said it was time to bring Hubbard home, and hinted that a development could come soon. A U.S. official had said before the trip that Witkoff's visit was expected to include efforts to seek the release of Hubbard, whom the U.S. Department of State has designated as wrongfully detained.

Hubbard, 74, is a retired teacher who grew up in Big Rapids, Michigan, served in the U.S. Air Force and the National Guard, and earned a master's degree in English. He taught English in Japan for 25 years before moving to Cyprus and then, in 2014, to the eastern Ukrainian city of Izyum with a Ukrainian partner. Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and captured Izyum two months later; Hubbard was detained in April 2022. Following a closed trial, a Moscow court convicted him of being a mercenary in October 2024 and sentenced him to six years and 10 months in prison. Prosecutors said he had joined a Ukrainian territorial defence unit, received training, weapons and ammunition, and was promised $1,000 a month; Russian state media said he had pleaded guilty.

His sister, Patricia Hubbard Fox, questioned the reported confession, saying Hubbard held pro-Russian views and was unlikely to have taken up arms in his seventies. His U.S.-based lawyer, Martin De Luca, told Reuters in June 2025 that Hubbard had said the charges were false, that he was not in any combat or military unit, and that Russian soldiers had simply grabbed him from his house.

In January 2025, Washington designated Hubbard as wrongfully detained, enabling the U.S. government to pursue negotiations for his release; the State Department has said Russia refused to grant U.S. officials consular access to him. The New York Times reported that Hubbard had been moved through at least five Russian detention centres before his trial, and his legal team learned only in April 2025 that he was being held in a facility in the Mordovia region, east of Moscow. He lived on a pension of about $300 a month, and he and his sister last spoke in September 2021.

As of publication, neither the State Department nor the White House had issued a formal statement on Hubbard's release, and the timing of his departure from Russia and return to the United States was not yet clear.

来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）

图片来源：俄罗斯总统普京与美国总统特使 Steve Witkoff 握手（资料图，2026年1月22日摄；Hubbard 本人暂无开放授权照片，本图为本次会谈双方当事人此前会面场景）。俄罗斯总统府官网（kremlin.ru）照片，CC BY 4.0，经维基共享资源。File photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, January 22, 2026. Photo by kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. No openly licensed photo of Stephen Hubbard was available.

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