Putin 100% correct as usual!! you're playing HOCKEY, In AMERICA!! while your countrymen are dying on the battlefields of the Ukraine??!hell no!!
Putin arrests Olympic 'traitor': Moment Russian ice hockey star Ivan Fedotov is forcibly enlisted in the army and dragged off to fight in Ukraine after signing $1m deal with US NHL team the Philadelphia Flyers
- Ivan Fedotov, 25, was taken to army enlistment office after 'draft-dodging' claims
- Accusation is seen as revenge for move to NHL team Philadelphia Flyers
- Promising goalie was formerly with CSKA, which has ties to Russian army
- Fedotov 'did not realise that the USSR is back', one Russian journalist quipped
A Russian ice hockey star who signed a million-dollar contract with an American team was rounded up by Russian plain-clothes policemen and taken to an army enlistment office yesterday before he's expected to be sent to fight in Ukraine.
Olympian Ivan Fedotov, 25, was reportedly rushed into Putin's army after he was filmed being detained by a squad of officers outside an ice rink in St Petersburg.
The accusation of 'draft dodging' is seen as revenge for his signing to play for NHL team the Philadelphia Flyers.
The top goalie and Olympic silver medalist signed a deal worth $1.1million (£900,000) last month.
Fedotov was formerly with CSKA, a club in the capital with close ties to the Russian military. Its name translates to Central Sports Club of the Army.
News outlet Fontanka reported that he can now be sent to the Russian army rather than the US - but he could also be jailed for alleged draft dodging.
