ukraine? and do they support putin and the lukashenko regimes? these three questions should have been asked them, and for me if they would answer those questions negatively, then they would be allowed to play. but wimbledon made their decision. for me what is bad to see is 85% of russians, they support the war in ukraine. so that s why i think it is very important to know those answers. and then we would know that there are no bad people among us. mm-hmm. alina, i ve been covering this war for weeks. i know the as my colleagues know and have witnessed, it is a horrible war and the people here are paying a horrible price. as you know, though, in belarus, in russia, there can be
tennis club said it would be unacceptable for the russian regime to derive benefits from the involvement of players with the tournament. so joining us now is a ukrainian professional tennis player, alina svitilina, ranked number 25 in the world. thank you for joining us this morning. thank you for having me. as you know, in response to this decision, both the men and the women s tennis associations, they re criticizing wimbledon s decision. what specifically do you want to hear from russian and belarusian players before they can be allowed to play in tournaments such as wimbledon? for us, for ukrainian tennis players there should be few questions posed to russian and belarusian players. do they support the russian and belarusian invasion to ukraine? do they support their military activities that are happening in