Russia Arrests Los Angeles Woman for Allegedly Raising Money for Ukraine

Published on February 20, 2024

A Los Angeles resident with U.S. and Russian dual citizenship has been arrested in Russia on charges of treason for raising funds to support Ukraine’s war effort, Russian state media said. The woman was detained by Russian authorities in Yekaterinburg on the eastern slopes of the Urals, the same Siberian city where Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in March 2023 on espionage charges. “The Federal Security Service in Yekaterinburg has interdicted the illegal activities of a 33-year-old resident of Los Angeles, who has dual citizenship of Russia and the United States, involved in providing financial assistance to a foreign state [Ukraine], thus conducting activities against the security of our country,” the Russian intelligence agency said in a statement to TASS....

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