A Russian court in Yekaterinburg has upheld the 12-year prison sentence handed down in August to dual U.S.-Russian citizen Ksenia Karelina for treason after she was found guilty of transferring $51 to a Ukrainian aid charity in early 2022.
  • atro_city
    36•6 months ago

    *tries to support Ukrainians 2 days after war starts, gets arrested and sent to jail*

    @RedditWanderer “shouldn’t have been in Russia, lol”

    • @RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•6 months ago

      Shouldn’t have been in Russia 2 years l later.

      She was arrested in Yekaterinburg in January on suspicion of petty hooliganism.

      On February 7, however, treason charges were filed against her after investigators learned that on the second day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, she had transferred $51 to Razom, a Ukrainian aid group that helps civilians affected by the war.