# Russia and the United States exchanged prisoners today, the second such swap since US president Donald Trump returned to the White House as the two superpowers push for closer ties. Moscow released US-Russian ballet dancer and spa worker Ksenia Karelina, who had been detained in Russia after a sentence of 12 years on treason charges. In exchange, the United States released Arthur Petrov. The Russian-German citizen had been facing up to 20 years in a US jail for violating export controls.
Russia, US exchange prisoners