Elina Svitolina is making her emotions clear on Donald Trump, saying that the US President’s choices are “already actually hurting” the Ukrainians and including that she feels “sorry for harmless folks.”
A few days in the past, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his administration landed in Washington for talks with the Trump administration.
However at one level, Zelenskyy received right into a tense trade with United States Vice President JD Vance and President Trump himself – just about accusing them of serving to extra Russia than Ukraine.
On the time, Svitolina reacted to it by an Instagram Story, posting a bleeding ears emoji and captioning the put up with the phrase “temper.”
For the Ukrainians, who have been hoping that the assembly would enhance peace talks and doubtlessly result in the conflict ending quickly, it was a catastrophic flip of occasions.
Nonetheless, Svitolina is not putting any blame on Zelenskyy.
Svitolina: Trump simply began and already made a variety of choices that damage us
“The US has been serving to us for a protracted time frame now. Our authorities is working actually exhausting to nonetheless discover the methods, the options for the selections,” the Ukrainian tennis star advised The Athletic.
“They’re attempting every part and to possibly discover different methods, different allies, or one thing. We’re simply hoping for one of the best. We live with the unimaginable challenges, strain, and simply not realizing what’s coming tomorrow.
“Proper now, I really feel like we’re united much more as a result of we really feel like the US isn’t serving to us a lot for the previous few weeks.
“So we’ve got to unite, we’ve got to assist one another, for the nation that we love. Trump simply began and already made a variety of choices that basically damage the Ukrainians. I’m simply actually unhappy for all harmless folks.”
For the reason that begin of the conflict, Svitolina has been very outspoken about her help for Ukraine.
On the conflict’s three 12 months anniversary – which was on February twenty fourth – the Ukrainian tennis star described the interval as “three years of unimaginable ache, loss, and destruction.”
In the meantime, the previous world No. 3 is presently in the US and making ready for the WTA 1000 tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami.
