The country’s main security agency said the 33-year-old detainee lived in Los Angeles. A lawyers group said she was accused of donating $50 to the war effort.

Russia’s main security agency said on Tuesday that it had arrested a dual citizen of Russia and the United States on accusations of committing state treason by raising funds for Ukraine.

The Federal Security Service, known as the F.S.B., identified the detainee as a 33-year-old woman who lives in Los Angeles. It said in a statement that she had raised money for a Ukrainian organization that bought weapons and other equipment for Ukraine’s military.

Perviy Otdel, a group of Russian lawyers who specialize in cases involving accusations of treason and other politically charged allegations, said that the woman had been accused of treason for sending just over $50 to Razom for Ukraine, a New York-based nonprofit organization that sends assistance to the country.

The F.S.B. said that the woman had been arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg in central Russia. RIA Novosti, a Russian state news agency, published a video that it said showed the woman, wearing a white hat that covered her eyes, being handcuffed and escorted by masked security service officers.

  • @shani66@ani.social
    12•4 months ago

    Is it victim blaming if the victim deliberately walked into a nest of angry, burning wasps? What did she think was going to happen going to Russia?

    • @yeahiknow3
      12•4 months ago

      “I walked into Mordor and was swarmed by orcs.”

      I feel bad for her but WHY? Why did she go to Mordor? Unless you have the one ring to destroy or an army at your back, do not go to Mordor.

    • @ickplant@lemmy.world
      8•4 months ago

      It is victim blaming, and it’s disgusting. Let’s place the blame on Putin and his regime.

      “She had traveled to Russia to visit her 90-year-old grandmother, parents and a younger sister.” I don’t think she was sitting there thinking about the $50 she donated to help Ukraine once.