Former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman, who serves a prison sentence for assaulting a Russian police officer in 2022, attends a court hearing in Voronezh, Russia on April 6, 2026. A former Marine held in a Russian prison since 2022 has been released and is headed back to the United States, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday, Aug. 11. Robert Gilman, a U.S. citizen from Lowell, Massachusetts, is facing a series of health complications, according to those who advocated for his release. The 32-year-old was imprisoned for four years and subjected to torture that has left him in an “essentially catatonic” state, said U.S. Sen. Ed Markey.