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News Wrap: Ksenia Karelina released to U.S. in prisoner swap with Russia

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

41K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In our news wrap Thursday, Russian-American Ksenia Karelina was released to the U.S. in a prisoner swap after 14 months in Russian captivity, well over 200 people are confirmed dead from a nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican Republic and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims his agencies will identify the cause of autism by September of this year. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

In today's other news, Russian-American Cassinia Catalina is flying back to the United States

0:06.0

tonight after 14 months in Russian captivity.

0:09.3

She was released as part of a prisoner swap, the second since President Trump returned

0:13.7

to the White House.

0:15.0

Here's Nick Schifrin.

0:17.3

A smiling Cassinia Carolina today on her way back home.

0:22.4

After being released from Russian custody in video filmed by Russia's spy agency.

0:27.6

She was arrested last February and sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security prison colony

0:32.9

for committing treason.

0:34.4

The U.S. called that absolutely ludicrous.

0:37.2

Her crime? A donation of $51

0:41.6

and 80 cents to a U.S.-based humanitarian group that helps Ukrainians affected by the war.

0:48.4

Carolina was a former ballerina and lived in Los Angeles for more than a decade. Her

0:53.0

boyfriend, Chris Van Heerden, told us last February how much she was missed.

0:58.0

She's kind, loving, funny, loved by all her friends.

1:03.5

Everyone admits her once more of Kisina.

1:05.8

She is funny as hell.

1:07.9

She has so much life in her.

1:10.1

Carolina was part of a swap, engineered by CIA director John Ratcliffe, for Arthur

1:14.9

Petrov, who flew back to Russia today. He was arrested for smuggling military-grade electronics

1:20.8

to Russia in violation of U.S. sanctions. Today, President Trump said he hoped the swap

1:26.1

could turn into more diplomatic momentum.

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