“I, Maria Butina, hereby declare that I want to voluntarily withdraw my appeal to the above case. In this regard, my lawyer fully informed me about the circumstances of my case and the consequences of the withdrawal of the appeal, ”the copy of the Russian’s petition says.

In May, it became known that Butina filed an appeal against her verdict.

A Russian woman was arrested in the United States in July 2018 and sentenced to 18 months in prison for "conspiring to work for a foreign government."