Ukraine Russia, a ‘civil war’?

“However, Marta Kostyuk was set to replace her and decided she didn’t want to play Andreeva due to her being from Russia and the continued war between her homeland and Andreeva’s. They had to quickly find a replacement. However they couldn’t.

But this posed its own issues as the showdown was called off after an official statement said that Kostyuk would not be playing due to ‘reasons beyond their will’ referencing the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Kostyuk is one of those players who has been a spokesperson throughout for Ukrainian Tennis alongside the likes of Elina Svitolina and Lesia Tsurenko and like the former refuses to shake hands with Russian and Belarusian players even being booed for not doing so.” — TennisUpToDate

“Putin calls conflict with Ukraine similar to civil war between brothers” — TASS