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The American ballerina, who put more than one year in Russia, spoke about her excruciating trials, and how President Trump gave her a “warm” reception upon returning home.
“I am very glad to be here, and I’m very pleased to return to America,” – Ksenia Karelin, Double Russian and US citizen, shared on Fox News “My look with Lara Trump“
Karelin was detained in January 2024 when she traveled to Russia, her home country to visit her family. The ballerina, who worked as aesthetics at the Los -Andgeles spa, was accused of treason for donation in 2022 for a total amount of $ 51.80, which she made in a charity in the US, which supports the victims of the war in Ukraine. She was sentenced to 12 years in a Russian working camp.
“Right, when I landed in my homeland, then it all started. I was experiencing border control to check the documents. They asked if I had another passport. I said I was doing and they asked for a passport and they saw that another passport was a passport.
Senior Director of Terrorism Sebastian Gorka photographs the American Ballet Ksenia Karelina and her South African boxer Chris Van Herden in Merilend, after the release of Crimean from Russia on April 10, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, after he had previously taken Crimea in 2014. It is estimated that Russia has suffered almost one million victims of 250,000 killed, and Ukraine has seen as many as 400,000 victims of a total of 60,000-100 000, which were killed, according to February 2025. Report CSIS.
Karelin shared that the Russian authorities told her that she was a life sentence for the so -called “betrayal”. The double national said that at first all the experience was surreal for her.
“You don’t really understand what it may be true,” Karelin said. “You can imagine the prison prison, just watching movies or anything, it’s all, but more.”
The ballerina said her parents were patriotic citizens of Russia, like her, and for her family it was devastating that the country they loved captured her own daughter.
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Ksenia Karelin was sentenced to 12 years in the Russian colony for “treason” after she sacrificed a US charity that helps Ukrainians. (Eleonora Silver/Mandit/Reuters)
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She said Larry Trump that her family should focus on each other’s support to survive the test. Karelin said she attracted inspiration in the book about the saint who survived in the desert to survive the endless days that hit the walls of the prison chamber.
“You just need to survive somehow, and you just drag the day into the day … I had this phrase in my head …” Another step, just take another step, just another step, “and here you are, especially,” she said.
Karelin said she and her boyfriend Chris Van Herden wrote letters there -here throughout the test in the colony. She said he was her “hero” who never stopped fighting for her. The ballerina said Van Herden had never made any doubt that she would be released.
April 10, 2025 her guy turned out to be correct when Karelin was released in the replacement of the prisoner.
Karelin called for peace in the war of Russia of Ukraine. (Getti)
After the release of Karelin met with the president Donald Trump In the oval office, which she looked to a meeting with an old friend.
“Never in life I never imagine shaking President Trump’s hand. I was so warm that it was almost like stopping at anyone, who you knew for a while. He was very warm, he was very simple, very welcoming. It was funny. He joked right away … It felt overwhelming, and now I could say more than if – no, if not President Trump, I was still in a Russian prison, but he really cares about ordinary citizens, “Karelin said.
Ballerina said now Working to help free Olga Jesler, a 35-year-old permanent resident of the United States, who went to jail in Russia over the past three years. She also expressed hope for the end of the war in Ukraine.
“People should not die for no reason. I very much hope that everything will be calm soon.”
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