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NHL star Alex Ovechkin, after appearing in a pro-Putin party advertisement, stated, "for peace and love"

NHL star Alex Ovechkin, after appearing in a pro-Putin party advertisement, stated, "for peace and love"

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September 17th, 2026

NHL star Alex Ovechkin, after appearing in a pro-Putin party advertisement, stated, "for peace and love"

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Regarding the appearance of Russian hockey stars in advertisements for a party affiliated with Vladimir Putin during the off-season, Alex Ovechkin declared that it was "for peace and love."

์•Œ๋ ‰์Šค ์˜ค๋ฒ ์น˜ํ‚จ์€ ๋น„์‹œ์ฆŒ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ค‘ ๋ธ”๋ผ๋””๋ฏธ๋ฅด ํ‘ธํ‹ด๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ณ„๋œ ์ •๋‹น์˜ ๊ด‘๊ณ ์— ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ํ•˜ํ‚ค ์Šคํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์ถœ์—ฐํ•œ ๋ฐ ๋Œ€ํ•ด "ํ‰ํ™”์™€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ์œ„ํ•ด"๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The video, produced for United Russia, was released this week, merely days before Ovechkin's Washington Capitals were scheduled to hold their annual media day on Thursday.

ํ†ตํ•ฉ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๋‹น์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ œ์ž‘๋œ ์ด ์˜์ƒ์€ ์˜ค๋ฒ ์น˜ํ‚จ์˜ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด ์บํ”ผํ„ธ์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋ชฉ์š”์ผ ์—ฐ๋ก€ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๋ฐ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋ถˆ๊ณผ ๋ฉฐ์น  ์ „์ธ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ์— ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The NHL's all-time goals leader has returned to the Capitals for his 22nd season.

NHL ํ†ต์‚ฐ ๊ณจ ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ์„ ๋‘์ฃผ์ž๋Š” 22๋ฒˆ์งธ ์‹œ์ฆŒ์„ ๋งž์•„ ์บํ”ผํ„ธ์Šค๋กœ ๋ณต๊ท€ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

In the advertisement, Ovechkin appears positioned behind Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and Vyacheslav Fetisov, a legendary star of Soviet hockey, likewise took part in the ad.

์˜ค๋ฒ ์น˜ํ‚จ์€ ๊ด‘๊ณ ์—์„œ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ์™ธ๋ฌด์žฅ๊ด€ ์„ธ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ์ด ๋ผ๋ธŒ๋กœํ”„์˜ ๋ฐฐํ›„์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ๋ชจ์Šต์œผ๋กœ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์†Œ๋ จ ํ•˜ํ‚ค์˜ ์ „์„ค์  ์Šคํƒ€์˜€๋˜ ๋ฑŒ์ฒด์Šฌ๋ผํ”„ ํŽ˜ํ‹ฐ์†Œํ”„ ์—ญ์‹œ ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ด‘๊ณ ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

"I am Russian, and I support my motherland," Ovechkin declared on Thursday.

"์ €๋Š” ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์ธ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์กฐ๊ตญ์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค,"๋ผ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋ฒ ์น˜ํ‚จ์€ ๋ชฉ์š”์ผ์— ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"I am oriented toward peace and love, and I hope that everyone, wherever in the world they may be and whoever they may be, will understand that all people yearn for peace and will wish for the world to proceed smoothly."

"์ €๋Š” ํ‰ํ™”์™€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ์ง€ํ–ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”์ด๋ฉฐ, ์„ธ์ƒ ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ๋“  ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์ด๋“  ๋ฌด๊ด€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ, ๋งŒ์ธ์ด ํ‰ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐˆ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ , ๋งŒ์ธ์ด ์„ธ์ƒ์ด ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์—ผ์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

Ovechkin stated that he had no hesitation whatsoever about participating in the advertisement.

์˜ค๋ฒ ์น˜ํ‚จ์€ ๊ด‘๊ณ ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์–ด ์ฃผ์ €ํ•จ์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Because they implored me to do it, I consented to it," he stated.

"๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ•ด๋‹ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ„์ฒญํ•˜์˜€๊ธฐ์—, ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ์Šน๋‚™ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง„์ˆ ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

"Therefore, the matter is as simple as that."

"๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฏ€๋กœ ๊ทธ ์ผ์€ ๊ทธํ† ๋ก ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค."

In 2017, Ovechkin expressed his support for the then-Russian president, who had founded a social movement called "Putin's Team."

์˜ค๋ฒ ์น˜ํ‚จ์€ 2017๋…„, "ํ‘ธํ‹ด ํŒ€"์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ ์šด๋™์„ ์ฐฝ์„คํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋‹น์‹œ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์ง€ ์˜์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ๋‹ค.

At the time, he declared in an interview with journalists and through The Washington Post, "I just support my country."

๋‹น์‹œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ž๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ ๋ฐ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด ํฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด "์ €๋Š” ๋‹จ์ง€ ์ œ ๋‚˜๋ผ๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Ovechkin, confronted with questions about the situation, replied, "Please, no more war."

2022๋…„ 2์›” ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๊ฐ€ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์นจ๊ณตํ–ˆ์„ ๋‹น์‹œ, ์˜ค๋ฒ ์น˜ํ‚จ์€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์งˆ์˜์— ์ง๋ฉดํ•˜์—ฌ "์ œ๋ฐœ, ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์ „์Ÿ์€ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

At the time, when asked about his relationship with Putin, Ovechkin said, "He is my president, but I am not in politics. I am an athlete."

๋‹น์‹œ ํ‘ธํ‹ด๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ฌป๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์˜ค๋ฒ ์น˜ํ‚จ์€ "๊ทธ๋Š” ์ œ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €๋Š” ์ •์น˜์— ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ์šด๋™์„ ์ˆ˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

In this week's Russian parliamentary elections, with nine parties aligned with Putin's policy line, led by United Russia, additionally contesting, the sole party that maintained an anti-war stance on Ukraine was excluded from the ballot.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ์˜ํšŒ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ํ†ตํ•ฉ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๋‹น์„ ํ•„๋‘๋กœ ํ‘ธํ‹ด์˜ ์ •์ฑ… ๋…ธ์„ ์— ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•˜๋Š” 9๊ฐœ ์ •๋‹น์ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ถœ๋งˆํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ „์Ÿ์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž…์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ง€ํ•œ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์ •๋‹น์€ ํˆฌํ‘œ์—์„œ ๋ฐฐ์ œ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Ovechkin, who turned 41 on Thursday, confirmed that he intends to reside in Russia should he retire from the NHL.

๋ชฉ์š”์ผ์— 41์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋œ ์˜ค๋ฒ ์น˜ํ‚จ์€ NHL์—์„œ ์€ํ‡ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ž„์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"I will remain there.

"์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ณณ์— ์ž”๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

I will build my life there; my children will likewise make their lives there, and so too will my family.

๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์‚ถ์„ ์˜์œ„ํ•˜๊ฒ ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ œ ์ž๋…€๋“ค ์—ญ์‹œ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๊ฒ ๊ณ , ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

And so I exist for peace and love, and I hope that everything will work out smoothly," Ovechkin declared.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์ €๋Š” ํ‰ํ™”์™€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌํƒœ๊ฐ€ ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๊ท€๊ฒฐ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํฌ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋ฒ ์น˜ํ‚จ์€ ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"My homeland is Russia.

"์ œ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์€ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

DC is my second home.

DC๋Š” ์ €์˜ ์ œ2์˜ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

I have a great many friends.

์ €์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

I have grown as a person here, and I love DC.

์ €๋Š” ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ ํ•œ ์ธ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ DC๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This place is my second home.

์ด๊ณณ์€ ์ €์˜ ์ œ2์˜ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Therefore I hope that everything will work out smoothly, and, as I have already mentioned โ€” peace and love to everyone."

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฏ€๋กœ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๊ท€๊ฒฐ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํฌ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฏธ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์˜€๋“ฏ์ด โ€” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ด์—๊ฒŒ ํ‰ํ™”์™€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„."

Notwithstanding the speculation that the previous season would prove to be Ovechkin's swan song, he has resolved to remain with the Capitals for at least one more yearโ€”while still declining to commit himself definitively regarding his future beyond the 2026-27 season.

์ง€๋‚œ ์‹œ์ฆŒ์ด ์˜ค๋ฒ ์น˜ํ‚จ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋ฌด๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ถ”์ธก์ด ์ œ๊ธฐ๋˜์—ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ตœ์†Œ 1๋…„ ๋” ์บํ”ผํ„ธ์Šค์— ์ž”๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ โ€” 2026-27 ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ดํ›„์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๊ด€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ํ™•๋‹ต์„ ์œ ๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

"I am currently devoting myself to training camp," Ovechkin stated.

"์ €๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ํ›ˆ๋ จ ์บ ํ”„์— ์ „๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋ฒ ์น˜ํ‚จ์€ ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"I simply must join the team."

"์ €๋Š” ํŒ€์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•ด์•ผ๋งŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

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