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Son of Stephen Hubbard, American freed from Russian jail, speaks out

In an interview with CBS News after Stephen Hubbard was released from Russian custody, his son, Fr. Joseph Coleman, said his father might have made a mistake in staying in Ukraine when the war began.

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