WATCH: Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina arrives in US | LiveNOW from FOX

Ksenia Karelina, a U.S.-Russian ballerina who was imprisoned in Russia on treason charges, landed back in the U.S. late Thursday night. She made her long-awaited arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

Karelina, who holds dual citizenship for both Russia and the United States and resides in Los Angeles, was arrested in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg in February 2024 and convicted of treason later that year on charges stemming from a donation of about $52 to a charity aiding Ukraine.

She was initially detained for "petty hooliganism" while visiting family in Russia, but the charge was later upgraded to treason after accusations that she was acting as an American spy.

Karelina was sentenced to 12 years in a Russian penal colony after pleading guilty to treason for donating $51.80 to a Ukrainian charity in early 2024. Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, accused her of "proactively" collecting money for a Ukrainian organization that was supplying gear to Kyiv's forces.

Moscow released Karelina in exchange for German-Russian citizen Arthur Petrov, who was arrested in 2023 in Cyprus at the request of the U.S. on charges of exporting sensitive microelectronics, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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