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Peter Walsh Member	Sat Jul 02 10:50:23 http://www...cibly-drafted-Putins-army.html Moment Russian ice hockey star Ivan Fedotov is forcibly enlisted in the Russian army and dragged off to fight in Ukraine after signing $1.1million deal with 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. 'He has just been detained "for evading the army",' reported Russian journalist Dmitry Navosha. Fedotov - who is 6ft 7 and one of the Russian and Chinese KHL league's best players - 'did not realise that [the USSR] is back', he added. The player has made public his intention to play in the NHL. The operation seems a deliberate attempt to thwart him. Video shows the moment he was detained on Friday at the ice rink in St Petersburg. He was still at the enlistment office late at night before being taken to hospital in an ambulance. A woman tried to get inside the ambulance but was pushed back. It's thought this was his mother. Fedotov's current whereabouts are unknown. The man in charge of Russian ice hockey is Roman Rotenberg, son of oligarch and Putin crony Boris. Both men are sanctioned by the US over their links to Putin, as is Roman's uncle, Arkady Rotenberg. A source told Fontanka that the military prosecutor's office believed 'there are sufficient grounds to consider Fedotov an army evader'. Despite being born in Finland and raised in Russia, the fact he played for CSKA meant he was considered a military man, said one report. Technically, all Russian males up to the age of 28 can be called up, though few sons of the elite serve in the army, and fewer still have been sent to fight in Ukraine. Fedotov is the Russian national team goalie. If he refuses to serve, he can face jail. A source told Fontanka: 'Nothing prevents even tomorrow sending hockey player Fedotov to the army.' As a conscript, he should theoretically not be sent to fight in what Putin calls a 'special military operation' in Ukraine. Yet there are accounts of conscripts as young as 18 being sent to fight. Men aged up to 49 are now being enlisted as Russian forces grow depleted. At least 21 people including two children were killed with dozens more wounded in the latest Russian missile strike on a civilian building in Ukraine. A nine-storey apartment building in Odessa was targeted by a rocket overnight. It's just the latest Russian airstrike to hit a civilian target in Ukraine, after the Kremenchuk shopping centre was struck on Monday - killing at least 20 - and an apartment block in Mykolaiv was hit Wednesday - killing at least eight. Ukraine says Russia is deliberately targeting civilians as part of a 'terror' campaign to distract from its failing invasion, a charge Putin denies. The Odesa attack - thought to have been carried out by a Russian Tu-22 bomber - came just hours after Putin's forces withdrew from Snake Island, around 90 miles out to sea from the key port city. Russian forces were forced to withdraw from the 100-acre spit of land after sustaining heavy fire from Ukrainian artillery and anti-ship missile batteries. Moscow attempted to play off the withdrawal as a 'goodwill gesture', the same phrasing it used when forced to retreat from Kyiv and Chernihiv earlier in the war.
obaminated Member	Sat Jul 02 13:22:04 Russian supporters will say Ukraine is doing the same thing. But... this isn't a war according to putin, so why the force conscription?
Peter Walsh Member	Sat Jul 02 13:27:17 It looks like a punishment for signing with an American team
Sam Adams Member	Sun Jul 03 08:03:53 Lesson: dont be russian.
Forwyn Member	Sun Jul 03 08:51:07 ^ Yeah, homeboy should have included a request for a delay on announcement and have them smuggle him out of the country first lol
LazyCommunist Member	Sun Jul 03 08:56:47 Conscription is the law in Russia, it is law for a long time. Why do you support a law breaker? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Russia The two-year conscription term in force in the USSR after 1967 continued in Russia following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union until 2006, when the Government of Russia and State Duma gradually reduced the term of service to 18 months for those conscripted in 2007 and to one year from 2008, while dropping some legal excuses for non-conscription from the law (such as non-conscription of rural doctors and teachers, of men who have a child younger than 3 years, etc.) from 1 January 2008.[12] As of 2021, all male citizens aged 18–27 are subject to conscription for 1 year of active duty military service in armed forces
murder Member	Sun Jul 03 09:44:50 "Lesson: dont be russian." Or be Russian and die.
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