“Not the cylinders. This is the slogan used by most Russian athletes when asked about the war in Ukraine. With exceptions, as in the case of Russian tennis number one Kasatkin, they are cautious for understandable reasons.
But 23-year-old tennis player Anastasia Gasanova, who expressed clear support for the Russian military campaign on social networks, did not take the napkins. “God forgot to give the Ukrainians a brain”, the 154th player in the world was enraged by the destruction of the Kerch bridge, which connects Crimea with the Russian Federation.
“The Ukrainian army is killing our people in Crimea just because they speak Russian. People are being killed for wearing Russian symbols. I don’t understand that Ukrainians are celebrating the damage to the Kerch bridge. They want to get Crimea and at the same time vault. that they are destroying it by themselves? God bless them unfortunately, it did not give the brains “, wrote Gasanová on social networks.
Offensive statements could not leave the Ukrainian tennis player Dajana Jastremska alone, who waited for Gasanova in the dressing room of the Cluj tournament.
“I asked her if she was serious about what she wrote. She said absolutely. This got me. She was sorry that the Russians had died there unnecessarily. So I asked her if she didn’t feel sorry for the children killed in Mariupol, Buč or Kharkiv. She was silent. So I sent her where the Russian warship was supposed to go, “Jastremska recalled the incident on Snake Island, when the Ukrainian defenders were called to surrender.
Russian and Belarusian athletes were barred from practically all team sports after the invasion, tennis players can play except for team competitions, but they cannot have their country’s abbreviation or flag after their name.
Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyukova recently expressed her position on the war clearly, refusing to shake hands with her opponent Viktoria Azarenkova of Belarus after the second round of the US Open.
