'Personal ambitions and political motives cannot justify violence.'
"I have represented Russia all my life," she wrote on social media.
"Personal ambitions and political motives cannot justify violence. This takes away the future not only from us, but also from our children.Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in action at Roland Garros "I'm just an athlete who plays tennis. I am not a politician, not a public figure. I have no experience in this," she wrote."Stop the violence, stop the war.
“I do not blame any of the Russian athletes,” Svitolina wrote. “They are not responsible for the invasion of our motherland.” "It is difficult to explain to people from politics that for me there is no opponent from any country, I am fighting for victory, my best game, for my result.
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