Maria Sharapova spoke about it on Instagram.
Maria Sharapova ended her tennis career in 2020. AOP
Ex-tennis star Maria Sharapova donated money to Ukrainian children.
Russian Sharapova posted a picture of Save the Children on her Instagram account, featuring a child. The child has a backpack on his back and a plush toy in his hand.
– With each passing day, my heart breaks more and more and I am deeply saddened by the images of families and children and their stories affected by this escalating crisis in Ukraine, Sharapova began and continued:
– I donate to the Save the Children Foundation’s crisis relief fund, which works tirelessly to provide food, water and first aid kits for those in need.
Sharapova also asked her followers to make a donation and asks them to pray for peace and send love and support to those in need. Sharapova currently lives in the United States.
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Russia has severely bombed Ukraine and children have also died in the bombings. Russia also bombed a maternity hospital in Mariupol on Wednesday.
Sharapova ended her tennis career in February 2020. In her career, she won the Olympic silver medal in singles in 2012. In addition, she won five singles in the Grand Slam tournaments.
In 2016, he admitted to suffering from doping. He had given a positive test sample of the drug Meldonium in the Australian Open. The substance has been on the list of banned substances by the International Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) since 2016.
Sharapova said she had used the substance for ten years.