Minnesota teacher detained by Russian forces in Ukraine released

A Minnesota teacher who was detained by Russian forces earlier this month has been released and will be safely making his way home, the state’s senior senator, Amy Klobuchar, announced Friday.

Tina Hauser had contacted officials working for Klobuchar to tell them her son, Tyler Jacob, was detained March 13 as he was trying to leave Ukraine on a bus heading to the Turkish border. The senator said she reached out to the State Department and connected with John Sullivan, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, who discussed the situation with the Russian government, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.