Some background on Ovechkin's pro-Putin activism ๐Ÿงต
As many of you know, in 2014, when Putin annexed Crimea and invaded Donbas, waging a bloody, horrific war there (that conveniently serves as a pretext for the current invasion), Ovechkin took part in a pro-Kremlin campaign...

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