Tina Hauser said she was finally able to speak to her son, 28-year-old Tyler Jacob, on Friday after nearly two weeks of anxiously awaiting word about his condition.
earlier this month has been freed — and safely reunited with his wife and daughter, his relieved mother told The Post Friday.
The phone call “was very emotional because this was the day that I’ve been waiting for almost two weeks now,” she said. Hauser told The Post she was “ecstatic” hearing that her son is “now safe and can get on with his life.” Jacob took a job teaching English in Ukraine in November and was living with his wife and her daughter in the southern city of Kherson.with his family to Turkey, but was detained by Russian troops at a checkpoint in Armiansk in northern Crimea.
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