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President Donald Trump An American Russian ballerina will be held at the White House on Monday, about a month after the Trump administration provided release from the Russian prison, Fox News Digital learned.
Ksenia Karelin, a former ballerina, was sentenced to 12 years in the Russian colony in 2024 for treason. The 33-year-old boy was released and returned to the US on April 10 through a swap in the US prison, Fox Digital reports earlier.
“G -n Trump, I’m so grateful that you brought me home and for () the American government. And I never felt more blessed to be an American and I’m so glad to return home,” Karelin said in the video posted by the deputy assistant Trump Sebastian on April 11 after returning to the US
On Monday, the White House official confirmed the Fox Digital that Karelin would visit the White House on Monday afternoon.
Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelin was replaced by prisoners from Moscow
Ksenia Karelin goes with her boyfriend Chris van Herden when she comes to Andrewn’s joint base on April 10. (AP/Alex Brandon)
Karelin who is a US citizen, Born in Russia And he lived and worked in Los -Angeles during his arrest. In 2024, she visited her family in Yekaterinburg, Russia, when the Russian Federal Security Service of the High Safety Agency looked at her phone and found that she donated about $ 50 to the US charity work to help Ukraine, Fox Digital reports.
American ballerina, accused of espionage for lawsuits in Moscow for $ 51
Ksenia Karelin thanked President Donald Trump in the video he posted on his social account on April 11. (AP/Alex Brandon)
Initially, she was detained for “petty hooliganism”, but then the prosecution was updated when Russian officials claimed that she had raised money into the Ukrainian army and took part in the actions supported by Ukraine while in the US while being in the USA while being in the US
Karelin was returned to the United States in exchange for the United States, released by Arthur Petrov, a double German Russian citizen, who was accused of exporting sensitive US electronics to Russian military. He was arrested in 2023 and accused of crimes such as a conspiracy and violation of export control, Previously reported Reuters.
The American ballerina has left a change from a Russian prisoner, pleading guilty of treason
Karelin’s family noted its release last month, and its former stepmother Eleonra Srebroski, who told Fox News at the time that she was “euphoric” over the replacement of the prisoner, praising Trump for his release.
“My spirit is high. We are extremely happy. It’s by the borders of any emotion … It’s healing,” Srebros said. “We have made great hope to the Trump administration, and we knew that it would be next after Mark Fogel. We support Trump even more.”
Guy Karelin, Chris van Herden, said NEW YORK POST After his release in April, the couple sought to meet Trump and thank him.
President Donald Trump is expected to meet with Ksenia Karelina at the White House on Monday. (Getti Image)
“We really need to thank him personally. If the time is right, she would like to meet him, and I would like to shake his hand for bringing back my life. And I’m not politics,” Van Herden said at the time.
“I asked Biden’s administration to return Ksenia all year long. I realized for about seven months. They weren’t going to do it for me. I believed, and I really believed when President Trump came to power, he could do it, and he did it,” he added.
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Correin release follows for Trump administration Striding another shift of the prisoner with Russia in February, which released the exit of US citizen and teacher Mark Fogel, who have been in custody of Russian custody since 2021, when he was arrested for storage of marijuana at the airport.
