St. PETERSBURG, July 3, Taras Barabash. Hockey player detained in St. Petersburg Ivan Fedotov was supposedly sent to Severomorsk at night, his lawyer Alexei Ponomarev said.
"Ivan (Fedotov) was supposedly sent to Severomorsk at night. At night, they took him out of the hospital, and then there is no information,» he said.
On Friday, the media reported that the hockey player was detained in St. Petersburg by members of the military enlistment office. Earlier, a source said that the goalkeeper faces up to two years in prison under Art. 328 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation — for evading conscription for military service. On the eve of Fedotov, he became ill at the military registration and enlistment office, after which he was hospitalized. Fedotov is 25 years old. As part of CSKA, the goalkeeper won the Gagarin Cup at the end of the 2021/22 season. He then signed with the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers, who selected him 188th overall in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. The goalkeeper stated that the move to the United States is scheduled for July.