FOX NEWS-- Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday announced the release of a U.S. citizen who had been imprisoned in Belarus as controversy looms over the Eastern European nation's ongoing election. 

Crediting President Donald Trump's leadership, Rubio said in a post on X that "Belarus just unilaterally released an innocent American, ANASTASSIA Nuhfer, who was taken under JOE BIDEN!" 

Rubio added that Christopher Smith, State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Eastern Europe and Policy and Regional Affairs, "from our team did a great job on this."  

"PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH," Rubio, who served 14 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before he was sworn in as Trump's new Secretary of State last week, wrote. 

No further information was immediately released about Nuhfer or her release, as some social media users marveled about not knowing an American had been jailed in Belarus during former President Joe Biden's administration.