'Nobody in their right mind wants war,' says New York Restaurateur Facing Anti-Russian Hate
NEW YORK, March 10 (Reuters) – On the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Vlada Von Shats put a picture of a Ukrainian flag on the front door of her ‘Russian Samovar’ restaurant in New York’s Manhattan, and a sign that read, “Stand by Ukraine. NO WAR.”
Von Shats, who is Russian, has been married to Jacob, a Ukrainian, for 38 years. They have three children and the family operates the restaurant Von Shat’s mother opened in 1986, about a decade after the family fled the Soviet Union.