Putin flips us off by arresting U.S.-Russian citizen for donating $50 to Ukrainian charity

The Russian government has arrested Ksenia Karelina, a 33-year-old U.S. citizen, on charges of treason for simply donating a few dollars to a Ukrainian charity. This appears to be Putin's way of flipping off the United States, simply because he can and not worry that our president, a man who practically qualifies having his likeness on US paper currency if he were not so incompetent, would do anything about it. 

The Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement that it arrested Ms. Karelina for donating $51.80 to Razom, a New York-based charity that sends assistance to Ukraine. The FSB is similar to our FBI in the US and they are obviously bias in their assessment of the situation.

“Since February 2022, she has been proactively collecting funds in the interests of one of the Ukrainian organizations, which were subsequently used to purchase tactical medicine items, equipment, weapons and ammunition by the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the FSB said.

She was arrested in Yekaterinburg, a city in central Russia, after returning home to visit her family. If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison. She became a U.S. citizen in 2021 and should now be considered a hostage of the Putin government.

Her mother-in-law and ex-husband are begging the Biden administration to help get her freed so she can return to the U.S. Since she is not Israeli, it's more likely that Biden's handlers would do more to assuage the situation but don't count on it.

“We are all in shock,” Eleonora Srebroski, Karelina’s former mother-in-law, told the New York Post. “She is just a wonderful soul. She would never do anything evil to anyone. Knowing Ksenia, she would never do anything criminal. We are so worried because we are reading stories about [Alexei] Navalny’s supporters arrested for mourning him. Her mom and dad had recently divorced and she wanted to see the family.”

Former newspaper, The New York Times reported that she was charged with treason on February 7. It seems that 7 is no longer a lucky number for innocent people nowadays.

It was unclear how Russia knew that she allegedly donated money to the charity as it does not make records public in accordance with U.S. privacy laws.

“Razom is appalled by reports that a U.S.-Russian dual national has been arrested by Russian authorities for purportedly making a charitable donation to Razom for Ukraine in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine,” Razom CEO Dora Chomiak said. 

“Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly shown that he holds no sovereign border, foreign nationality, or international treaty above his own narrow interest. His regime attacks civil society activists who stand up for freedom and democracy. Razom calls on the U.S. government to continue to do everything in its power to demand that President Putin release all those unjustly detained by Russia and to hold Russia’s political and military leadership accountable for their unprovoked invasion of Ukraine,” she added.

Karelina worked in Los Angeles as an aesthetician [a person who deals with beauty and art] and spa manager [a person who often deals with fat people] at a Beverly Hills hotel.

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