Ovechkin was attached to the anti-Russian military intelligence base in Ukraine. The Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has added the Russian hockey player, the captain of the National Hockey League club of the Washington Capitals, Alexander Ovechkin, to its database, the media reported. It should be noted that the electronic database of the Ukrainian military intelligence has the subtitle "We identify targets". This list also includes Russian hockey players Vyacheslav Patisov, Pavel Bura, Andrei Kovalenko and Spartak goalkeeper Ivan Fedotov. The chief director of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine calls for the removal of Russian athletes from competitions and expulsion from the federations. According to the Sputnik agency, Ukrainians earlier in Washington demonstrated against Ovechkin, and the head of the Latvian Foreign Ministry blacklisted him, banning him indefinitely from entering the republic.

Ovechkin was attached to the anti-Russian military intelligence base in Ukraine. The Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has added the Russian hockey player, the captain of the National Hockey League club of the Washington Capitals, Alexander Ovechkin, to its database, the media reported. It should be noted that the electronic database of the Ukrainian military intelligence has the subtitle "We identify targets". This list also includes Russian hockey players Vyacheslav Patisov, Pavel Bura, Andrei Kovalenko and Spartak goalkeeper Ivan Fedotov. The chief director of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine calls for the removal of Russian athletes from competitions and expulsion from the federations. According to the Sputnik agency, Ukrainians earlier in Washington demonstrated against Ovechkin, and the head of the Latvian Foreign Ministry blacklisted him, banning him indefinitely from entering the republic.