(Reuters) – A Russian ice hockey player underneath contract with a U.S.-based National Hockey League (NHL) group has been detained in Russia over prices he evaded military service and has since been taken to a military hospital after falling sick, his lawyer instructed a Russian state information company.
Ivan Fedotov, a goaltender on the Russian group that received silver on the Beijing Winter Olympics this yr, signed a one-year entry-level contract with the Philadelphia Flyers in May.
His detention comes after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Moscow calls its actions a “particular military operation”.
The Fontanka.ru information web site mentioned on Friday the 25-year-old had been detained by St Petersburg police on the request of the military prosecutor’s workplace and was taken to an enlistment workplace.
His lawyer, Alexei Ponomaryev, instructed state information company RIA on Saturday that Fedotov was taken to an enlistment workplace on Friday after which a military hospital after falling sick.
“As I perceive it, attributable to stress, he had gastritis,” Ponomaryev mentioned. “Ivan feels unhealthy. He says that he’s not being supplied with full medical help.”
Ponomaryev denied accusations that his consumer had evaded military service.
The St Petersburg police service didn’t reply to a request for remark. Fedotov didn’t reply to a request for remark despatched to his Instagram account on Friday. Reuters couldn’t instantly attain his lawyer, Ponomaryev, for remark.
Fedotov, who was chosen by the Philadelphia Flyers within the 2015 Entry Draft, led CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) to the Gagarin Cup, the league’s championship title, final season.
A spokesman for CSKA Moscow instructed Reuters on Friday it was awaiting official info from related our bodies. “At the second Ivan Fedotov shouldn’t be certain by contractual obligations with our membership,” the spokesman added.
The NHL has severed enterprise ties with Russia however has not banned the greater than 50 gamers on its groups.
The league shouldn’t be permitting the Stanley Cup, its championship trophy, to journey to Russia for a house celebration for Valery Nichushkin of the Colorado Avalanche.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Edmund Blair)
