On Tuesday, the President of the United States talked Donald Trump with Vladimir Putin on the phone. During the conversation, the presidents discussed, among other things, the war in Ukraine – and hockey.
During the conversation, Putin must have proposed, among other things, to organize ice hockey matches between teams from the Russian league KHL and the North American league NHL.
Russia is then the invasion in Ukraine ported from international hockey tournaments.
“Donald Trump supported Vladimir Putin’s proposal to organize ice hockey matches in the United States and Russia between Russian and American NHL and KHL players,” it sounded in a statement from the Kremlin according to the News Agency Tt.
The former NHL goalkeeper Dominik Hasek Rafting against Trump’s actions and writes, among other things, that it “can not only be regarded as treason but also as a crime on the part of the American president”.
“This places the US president at the same level as the biggest criminal of our time, Putin, who must be brought to trial for the wicked offenses, including the genocide of Ukrainian children,” he writes on the platform X.