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Ukrainian tennis player Oleksandra Oliynykova after a successful start at the WTA 500 tournament in Singapore used an international sports podium to draw attention to the humanitarian catastrophe in the temporarily occupied Oleshky in the Kherson region. The video of the appeal is posted on the athlete's Instagram.
Immediately after the end of her opening match against American Vivian Wolf, which the Ukrainian clearly won with a score of 6:1, 7:6, Oliynykova addressed the viewers and the world community with a call to learn about the situation in the occupied city.
- You know that I am from Ukraine, and we are at war. After the match ends I want to ask you for one thing: please google information about Oleshky. It is currently temporarily occupied, and there is a humanitarian catastrophe there. Messages report that people there are starving, have no access to humanitarian aid, medicines, and cannot leave or evacuate. So I ask everyone: when you finish watching this wonderful tournament, search for information and share it — spread it everywhere so that we can save the lives of Ukrainians, - Oliynykova said.
The situation in Oleshky remains critical. According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga, the city has been under blockade by the occupiers for more than half a year. There remain over 6 thousand residents, including nearly 200 children, who are surviving under conditions of severe shortages of food and essential medicines.
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Former mayor of Oleshki: People are living basically among trenches — without food, light, or gas.
28 March Ukraine declared a humanitarian catastrophe in Oleshki — people left without food and water.
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