13 top tennis players, incl athletes from Europe 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸 will play in Russia - at the exho tournament of Gazprom, which reportedly finances mercenary companies for war against Ukraine
Do ATP & WTA give their players permission to take part in this event as it was in 2022? 🧵👇
The goal of the Olympic Movement, as per the Olympic Charter, is to promote sport “in a spirit of friendship, solidarity, and fair play". Russia ruins not only fair play, but also lives of Ukrainian athletes. The real fair play is to ban Russian athletes from the Olympic Games.
👀 And just like that … we believe this is the 1st display of the Z symbol of Russia’s war on Ukraine at the international tennis tournament.
🤔 Looks like he was hiding it under the white t-shirt huh?
⁉️ Russian tennis player Anastasia Gasanova started this week with a video & several stories on IG re Ukraine. She mentioned “an armed coup in 2014” + said Kyiv “could have stopped firing” in Donetsk & Luhansk so there would be no “SMO" (="special military operation") ⬇️ thread
🧵 on the left - russian dictator vladimir putin & margarita simonyan, one of main faces of kremlin's propaganda and disinformation.
what it has to do with #tennis? on the right - tennis trophies won in 2022 by players who "liked" simonyan's pro-war posts on instagram ⬇️