US-Russian dual national jailed on treason charges released in prisoner swap

Ksenia Karelina, also known as Ksenia Khavana, sits in a glass cage in a court room in Yekaterinburg, Russia (AP)

A US-Russian dual national jailed in Russia on treason charges was freed in a prisoner exchange with Washington, the woman’s lawyer and US secretary of state Marco Rubio said.

Ksenia Karelina, also identified in the media as Ksenia Khavana, is “on a plane back home to the United States”, Mr Rubio said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.