Ivan Fedotov, Olympic silver medalist in Beijing 2022 and former CSKA Moscow, is accused of having tried to escape recruitment. He now he could be sent to fight in Ukraine
Ivan Fedotov, a hockey goalie who has just signed a more than one million euro contract with the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League, was picked up by plainclothes policemen from his home in St. Petersburg and taken in an armored van to the nearest office. to be sent to fight in Ukraine. It seems to be Putin’s revenge who saw Fetodov’s signing with the Flyers as a means of avoiding being drafted.
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The best Russian goalkeeper, silver medalist at the last winter Olympics, played with CSKA Moscow last season. He now even risks prison for draft evasion. Since yesterday, on social media there have been images depicting him being transferred by ambulance from the recruiting office to a nearby hospital while a woman – presumably his mother – is pushed away from the vehicle.
At the moment there is no news on where he is. The Russian hockey boss is Roman Rotenberg, son of Boris, an oligarch very close to Putin, who is also the subject of international sanctions following the invasion of Ukraine. According to the Russian press, the prosecutor believes there is enough evidence to consider Fedotov a defector. The goalkeeper was born in Finland and raised in Russia, but the fact that he played for CSKA, still considered the army team (in the old USSR it was called the Red Army), makes him a de facto soldier, according to Putin.
2 July – 17:21
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