American Balarina speaks after release from Russian Jail

An American Balarina has imprisoned Russia for more than a year, which has opened up about her suffering and President Trump “hot” welcomed her when she returned home.

“I am really happy to come here, and I am really happy to come back to America,” a dual Russian and American citizen, Ksenia Karelina shared on Fox News shared “” My idea with Lara Trump. ,

Karelina was detained in January 2024, when she visited Russia, her country to visit her family. Balarina, who worked as an esthetician at the Los Angeles Spa, was accused of treason in a 2022 donation, which was a total of $ 51.80, which she had done for American charity supporting war victims in Ukraine. He was sentenced to 12 years in a Russian labor camp.

“Well when I landed in my motherland, when everything started. I was undergoing limit control for paperwork. He asked if I have another passport. I said that I do, and they asked for passports, and they said that they saw other passports.

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Karelina shared that Russian officials told her that she was facing a lifetime of life on the so -called “treason”. The double national said that, first of all, the entire experience was real for him.

“You can’t realize really that it can be real,” said Karelina. “You can imagine only about films or something else about the gel, but more.”

Balarina said that her parents were Russian patriotic citizens, as she was also, and it was disastrous for her family that the country he loved would catch her daughter.

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He told Lara Trump that his family had to focus on supporting each other to keep them alive to survive. Karelina said she took inspiration from a book about a saint, who survived the desert to bear the endless endless days inside her jail cell walls.

“You just need to survive somehow, and you just pull every day … I had this phrase in my head …” Just one more step, just one more step, just one more step, “and it’s how you pull through it, especially, first,” he said.

Karelina said that she and her lover, Chris Van Heardon wrote letters in Dand Colony during their entire time. He said that he was his “hero” who never stopped fighting for him. Balarina said that Van Heordon never expressed any doubt that she would be freed.

On April 10, 2025, when Karelina was released in the exchange of a prisoner, her lover proved to be correct.

After her release, Karelina met with President Donald Trump at the Oval Office, which she compared to meeting an old friend.

“In my life, I will never imagine being in the Oval Office by shaking the hand of President Trump in the Oval Office. It felt very hot, it felt like stopping by someone you knew for a while. He was very hot, he was very simple, was very simple, welcoming. He was a funny.

Balarina said she is now working to help Olga Jejler, a 35 -year -old United States permanent resident Olga Jejler, who has been imprisoned in Russia for the last three years. He hoped to end the war in Ukraine.

“People should not die without any reason. I hope everything will be peaceful soon.”

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