Washington and Moscow conducted an exchange of prisoners in Abu Dhabi: Russia released Ksenia Karelin, and the USA – Arthur Petrov.
The United States and Russia on Thursday, April 10, conducted an exchange of prisoners as a sign of “strengthening trust.” About this is writing a Wall Street Journal.
The exchange took place in the capital of the UAE Abu Dhabi. According to the publication, Russia released Ksenia Karelin, a citizen of the United States and Russia, who had been punished for 12 years at a maximum security colony for a donation in favor of the Ukrainian charitable organization in the United States.
In exchange for the United States, Arthur Petrov, a citizen of Germany and Russia, arrested in 2023 in Cyprus at the US request for likely exporting of microelectronics, was released.
“Today, United States President Donald Trump returns from Russia another unlawful American confrontation. I am proud of CIA employees working all our strengths in this work, and we are grateful to the UAE government, which contributes to the exchange,” said CIA director John Retcliffe.
In August 2024, the Russian court condemned Ksenia Karelin, who since 2015 lived in the United States, for 12 years in prison for “state treason” in case of transfer of $ 51 to the Ukrainian Charitable Organization in 2022.
In the summer of 2023, 33-year-old Arthur Petrov was arrested in Cyprus. According to the US Ministry of Justice, he, along with two accomplices from February 2022 to August 2023, bought a large amount of electronics from the Russian company for the Russian military enterprise -Industrial Complex that opens the penalties. He was obtained from Cyprus to the United States.
Remember, today, April 10, negotiations of US and Russian delegations have been agreed with Istanbul. The purpose of the assembly is to normalize the work of the embassy. The delegation from Russia is chaired by the Russian Federation’s ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev.
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