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October 21, 2026 / 8:51 PM EDT / CBS News

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Washington — Fr. Joseph Coleman feared he would never again see his father, Stephen Hubbard, when they had a brief phone conversation last year while Hubbard was in a Russian prison.

"He was expressing a very extreme tiredness with life, the life that he was experiencing at that time. I don't want to say suicidal thoughts, but the conversation hinted it leaned in that direction," Coleman, a Greek Orthodox priest, told CBS News on Wednesday in his first television interview since his father's release.

Hubbard's release was announced earlier Wednesday during a meeting between U.S.…