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Russia has launched Kareia Karena, a dual citizen of the United States of Russia He was sentenced to 12 years in prison For betrayal in August last year, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in A. Social media yet Early on Thursday, no information about the conditions for release. the Wall Street Journal mentioned for the first time The release of Karelina, saying that she was released to a prisoner’s barter spread by intelligence agencies in both countries.

“American Ksenia Carlina is on a plane in the homeland for the United States,” Rubio said in this position. “Russia has been reserved incorrectly more than a year ago, and President Trump got its release.”

The magazine quoted the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, as saying in a statement to the newspaper that “President Trump brought to the homeland another American, incorrectly detained by Russia,” and they claim “CIA officers who worked tirelessly to support this effort.”

The exchange was conducted, according to the magazine, in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, and was negotiated by Ratcliffe and a senior Russian intelligence official whose name is – the highest level of the level indicating the deepening of the efforts made by the Trump administration to improve relations with Moscow. Mr. Trump pushes both Russia and Ukraine to negotiate a peace agreement to end three years The war arose from the full invasion of Russia From her neighbor.

Mikhail Moshelov, a lawyer representing Carlina in Russia, told CBS News that she had left Abu Dhabi on a trip at about 3 in the morning.

In exchange for Carlina, a ballet dancer who lived in California, the magazine said that the US government had liberated Arthur Petrov, a Russian German citizen who was arrested in Cyprus 2023 at the request of the American authorities. He was held on allegations of the export of sensitive micronous electronics.

Carlina was sentenced to 12 years in prison in a Russian criminal colony after admitting that he was guilty of treason. She was arrested during her visit to Russia to donate about 51 dollars to an American -based humanitarian group that was helping the Ukrainians who were affected by the war, according to the Russian government media.

Her lawyers said that she confessed to transferring money, although she did not admit that she had intentionally directed them to organizations that may have used money for actions against Russia. She did not expect her donation to support anti -Russian activities, according to her lawyer.

Carlina’s friend, Chris van Herden, CBS News said Last year, she had submitted a small donation in 2022, “the exercise of her first amendment rights,” adding that she “did nothing wrong.”

Van Herden said he was unstable about Carlina’s decision to return to Russia on a visit, given the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, but she said that she was “not worried in the world”, and that she assured him that she would be safe because she was entering the country as a bilateral American citizen.

“She wanted to go home,” Van Herden told Gayel King in “CBS Mornings”.

In his desire to fulfill her desire to visit the house, Van Herden said he bought her a plane ticket as a birthday gift, and the husband first traveled to Istanbul. He originally intended to travel with her to Russia from there, but he did not feel comfortable, so she traveled alone to Russia and returned to Los Angeles.

Russia imprisoned a number of Americans with a rise in tension with Washington amid construction, and in the end the full war in Ukraine. Paul WillianWall Street Journal Ivan Geckvich And the teacher Mark Vogel They were all appointed incorrectly like Karelina and were released in the previous prisoners’ bodies with Moscow.

Among the American citizens who are still imprisoned in Russia, is the US military sergeant. Gordon BlackWho was sentenced to three years in prison, for a period of nine months on charges of stealing and threatening his Russian girlfriend, seven months earlier this week by a Russian court.

Robert Gilman, 72, is currently serving a 3/2 -year prison sentence in Russia for assaulting a police officer, and Travis LakeA musician who was convicted of drugs was sentenced to 13 years in prison last summer.

Russian court Another 72 -year -old American judgmentStephen Hobard, to prison for nearly seven years in October to fight along with the Ukraine Army.

Joseph tense46, he is still waiting for his trial by claiming assault on a Russian police officer at a hotel in Moscow. He was accepted in a psychiatric hospital, forcibly during the weekend, according to Russian government media.

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Emmet Lyons

He contributed to this report.