A Sverdlovsk court has sentenced a Russian-American woman to 12 years in prison for donating to a Ukrainian NGO at the start of the invasion.
Ksenia Karelina was sentenced to 12 years in prison for donating around €50 to the Ukrainian NGO Razom.
A regional court in Sverdlovsk in the Urals found the 32-year-old woman guilty of “treason.”
Court finds funds were used “for the purchase of medical equipment, weapons and ammunition by the Ukrainian Armed Forces”.
Ksenia Karelina is said to have made the donation in the first days of the conflict.
The young woman was then living in California, where she emigrated about fifteen years ago.
Ksenia Karelina was arrested last February when she returned to Russia to visit her grandparents.
The conviction of the young Russian-American comes less than fifteen days after the large prisoner exchange carried out between Moscow and the West.
Russia is accused of arresting and convicting Western citizens under false pretexts and then using them as bargaining chips.
Several Westerners or dual nationals are currently imprisoned in Russia.
Among them is Frenchman Laurent Vinatier, who worked for a Swiss NGO and is accused of illegally collecting sensitive military information in Russia.