Russian American ballerina Ksenia Karelina arrives back in the United States

Russian American ballerina Ksenia Karelina arrived back in the United States late Thursday following her release from a Russian jail as part of a prisoner swap with Moscow. The 33-year-old’s plane touched down around 11 p.m. at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where she was met by her fiancé and presented with a bouquet of flowers from Morgan Ortagus, President Trump’s deputy special envoy to the Middle East. The dual-citizen spa worker was accused of treason against the Russian government when she donated $51 to a charity that allegedly supported Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022 — the day Russia invaded its neighbor