Kyiv and Kharkiv recovering from wave of missile and drone strikes; Turkey blocks British minehunter ships from Black Sea
Alexandr Dolgopolov, the 35-year-old former Australian Open tennis quarter-finalist, is back in Kyiv awaiting a new deployment after serving on the frontline for several months defending his Ukrainian homeland.
He admits his family “were unhappy” at his joining up in 2022, a decision taken when he was watching TV images in Turkey where he had taken his sister and mother to safety after the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, launched the invasion.
Continue reading…Kyiv and Kharkiv recovering from wave of missile and drone strikes; Turkey blocks British minehunter ships from Black SeaAlexandr Dolgopolov, the 35-year-old former Australian Open tennis quarter-finalist, is back in Kyiv awaiting a new deployment after serving on the frontline for several months defending his Ukrainian homeland.He admits his family “were unhappy” at his joining up in 2022, a decision taken when he was watching TV images in Turkey where he had taken his sister and mother to safety after the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, launched the invasion. Continue reading…