Elina Svitolina is working hard daily to raise awareness of what is still going on in her country as many people started to forget.
Modern times are a tricky place to navigate as the globality of news makes stories appear both bigger and smaller than they are. Ukraine has been a topic for months and with each day interest dies down. Elina Svitolina is making sure that doesn't happen and her people's daily suffering is not forgotten:
"We're here to do everything to tell people, to introduce them (to) what is really happening in Ukraine, because a lot of people come to me and ask, 'Is there still a war?' And this is really painful to hear," Svitolina told Reuters.
Svitolina, like many Ukrainian athletes, has family back home who are enduring every day: "They are also struggling without the electricity right now for a couple of days. And it's been a quite, quite challenging nine months for them and it's not getting better."
She also revealed that Ukrainians have stopped urging the ATP and WTA: "In tennis there's been nothing done towards these athletes representing these countries. In the end, we stopped trying because it was just impossible to convince them to change their minds."