Russia Just Freed Former US Marine Robert Gilman, 32, and Sent Him Home on a State Department Plane With His Mother Beside Him
by Jerome London · Thought CatalogUpdated 5 minutes ago, August 11, 2026
A former US Marine who had been imprisoned in Russia since 2022 is back on American soil, flown home on a State Department plane with his mother at his side.
Russia just freed former US Marine Robert Gilman, 32, and sent him home on a State Department plane with his mother beside him.
Gilman had been jailed since 2022 for allegedly kicking a police officer while drunk, a charge his family called false.
Weeks before his release, he was moved to a hospital psychiatric ward in what doctors described as a “dissociative stupor.”
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