Taylor Dudley, a U.S. Navy veteran, was released from Russian custody today after Russian border police arrested him in April 2022.
A member of the Polish Border Guards closing a gate leading to the Polish border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad near Goldap, Poland, in November 2022. Photo: STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images
It was unclear why Dudley crossed into Kaliningrad, but he was in Poland at the time for a music festival.The Richardson Center for Global Engagement, which negotiates for the release of American prisoners, confirmed Dudley was homebound to Lansing, Michigan on Thursday. "The negotiations and work to secure Taylor’s safe return were done discreetly and with engagement on the ground in both Moscow and Kaliningrad and with full support from Taylor’s family back in the United States."
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