MOSCOW, March 30. /TASS/. Two Russian citizens detained in January for allegedly trespassing into the Camp Pendleton military base in California remain in immigration detention as of over two months later, according to information from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database.
Ksenia Petrova, a Russian scientist affiliated with Harvard University, is also detained in the United States while awaiting trial. She faces charges related to smuggling frog embryos and has been under investigation since May 2025.
Below are the key facts regarding the Russian women held in the US:
- Natalia Dudina and Kristina Malyshko were apprehended on January 17 at the main entrance of Camp Pendleton. An ICE official confirmed to TASS that both women were in the country illegally.
- According to ICE, the women entered the United States on December 11, 2021, via the San Ysidro land port of entry along the Mexican border.
