“Against the background of FTU and Martha Kostyuk’s statements, we suggest to mention Daria’s statements in 2022”, – WRITE: Sport.ua
Casatkin can be called former Russian-she has changed sports citizenship and now performs under the flag of Australia.
On the day of Kostyuk – Kasatkina Martha and tennis Federation of Ukraine published statements. Both Kostyuk and FTU thanked Kasatkin for the position, emphasizing the phrase: “Kasatkina spoke against the war in Ukraine.”
Within three years after the start of a full -scale war, which Russia was unleashed against Ukraine, Kasatkina had several times expressed or hinted that it condemns the actions of the Russian Federation. But it was after her first interview, in which she also confessed in her homosexual orientation, Ukrainians could clearly understand Daria’s position.
Then Kasatkina came to an interview with one of the Russian journalists Viktor Kravchenko, who positions her activities as “independent”, together with Andrei Rublev. Rublev is a separate story, and in addition to “drilling” the words of Daria in that video, he did not say anything more.
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And here the words of Kasatkina we suggest to remember (literary processing, without obscene vocabulary):
“What do I want the most now? Probably to all that [війни] It just wasn’t. From February 24, it has not been a day so that I did not read any news, did not think about it, did not compare what is happening around. It was not a single day to keep it part of my inner dialogue. Although, it would seem, I do not have a direct relationship. It did not touch me. But the feeling that you are still in this – it is. Constantly.
I think of people who really go through it. In which their relatives and relatives are. I can’t imagine that they are experiencing. This is a nightmare. And if I had the slightest opportunity to change something, at least to stop it, I would have done everything in my power. Not to influence someone’s opinion, not to convince someone in their correctness – no. Namely stop. Stop the pain itself, it is grief.
But do you understand how powerless we are? You seem to bend in different directions, you try to reach at least something that matters – and everything is past. Because you can’t affect the actions. In general. This is probably the worst thing – complete powerlessness. I am a tennis player. I’m 25 years old [зараз – 28]. Everything I can do is play tennis. But what does it mean when people have nowhere to live? When their homes are destroyed, the courts are broken? When they have to call the academies, ask: “Can you work out? Live somewhere? ” Because they have nothing more.
I know how important it is to have a place where you can go. Where are you waiting for you. Where can you just be yourself. No matter how bad the day has passed, no matter how you play – you always know: you can get home. And I do not imagine what it means – to know that this house is gone. Not because you have not found it yet. And because he was just taken away. They took away from you – without explanation, for no reason.
Sometimes I think: what, how do I take it? Yes, I thought about it (crying). ”
After this interview, Darya continued to perform on the tour, receiving a lot of Hate by the residents and the tennis federation of Russia. But it was not bypassed. Kasatkina lived in Spain with her girlfriend Natalia Zabiyako and was still considered the first racket of Russia.
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine. Natalia Zabiyako – Girl Daria Kasatkina As noted above, Kasatkina also had statements about the Russian-Ukrainian war. Particularly noteworthy is the situation on Rolan Garros 2023, when Darya lost Elina Svitolini and did not arrange a show near the net (as some do) and wait for a handshake from a Ukrainian woman.
On the contrary, Darya stated that she understands the position of Ukrainian tennis players not to press his hand to Russians and Belarusians. Elina at a press conference after the victory thanked Kasatkin for his courage, and Sergei Stakhovsky said the following: “She has a [Касаткіної] Eggs are larger than all Russian male players combined. ”
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine. Darya Kasatkin