U.S. citizen Sarah Kirvanek deported from Russia

FILE PHOTO: U.S. citizen Sarah Krivanek, who spent almost eleven months in detention in Russia on charges of causing light injuries to her civil partner, attends a court hearing to consider her deportation, in Ryazan, Russia November 10, 2022. REUTERS/Yulia Morozova

(Reuters) - Sarah Krivanek, a U.S. citizen ordered deported by a Russian court over a domestic dispute, has left Russia, Krivanek said while aboard a plane about to leave Moscow's Domodedovo airport late on Thursday.

Krivanek said she was flying to Los Angeles via Dubai. The airport's website showed the aircraft had departed.

(Reporting by Ronald Popeski; editing by Jonathan Oatis)