(Provided by Tennis World USA)
Russian tennis star Daria Kasatkina admits she was left feeling scared for her friends and family during Wagner Group’s attempted coup this past weekend. On Friday night, Russia’s mercenary boss Evgeny Prigozhin announced his Wagner troops were going to Moscow “for a march of justice.” As the Wagner troops were making their way to Moscow, they moved through Voronezh.
Kasatkina, who has relatives and friends in Voronezh, was left terrified when Wagner Group entered the city. With Wagner Group just two hours away from entering Moscow, the mercenary group boss Prigozhin announced they were retrieving because they “didn’t want to shed Russian blood.”
Kasatkina on the Russian coup
“Well, yeah, of course I have friends in Russia.
My family, my parents are still in Russia. Well, as you can see, the last few days it’s been a big mess also there. Of course I’m worried. I’m worried for my friends, because my best friends, they actually live in Voronezh, where was one of the biggest, you know, few days ago, there was – sorry not know in English how to say these words.
It was like the guy with the private army. And Voronezh was one of the cities where they…
